TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said on Monday that security cannot be imported to the Persian Gulf.

He reiterated that the Persian Gulf is in dire need of endemic security and that an imported security is meaningless.
Mottaki made the remarks while addressing the 18th international conference on Persian Gulf opened in Tehran this morning with participation of scholars and researchers from major world countries.
“None of us can provide its security solely. We should not repeat the past experience,” he said.
“The imported security and presence of foreign military forces in the region over the past did not bring security for the Persian Gulf.
Instead, it led to insecurity and more killing and plunder of natural resources of the entire region.”
A number of scholars from European, Asian and African states as well as the U.S. are attending the two-day conference which is being held at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS).
Mottaki also said that the plots hatched the enemies to isolate Iran have all failed.
The trans-regional powers have tried hard to depict a negative image on Iran in order to isolate the country who has always played an active role among regional countries, he said.
Iran has always called for convergence and cooperation among regional countries, Mottaki said.
Iran has played a significant role in resolving regional conflicts and urged cooperation and confidence-building among countries in the region, he said.
Military presence of foreign powers have not helped resolve existing issues in the Persian Gulf region, he said, adding that these powers should be blamed for rampant insecurity and instability in the Persian Gulf region.
Mottaki said that U.S. administration has suffered several failures in decision making over the Persian Gulf and it is unlikely to create another crisis at the expense of the American tax payers.
Asked whether the U.S. will be the initiator of a third war in the region due to the anti-Iran propaganda launched by the U.S. mass media, he said, “A kind of vacuum has appeared in the U.S. policy-making since the Congress elections.
Opinion polls carried by the U.S. agencies indicated that over 80 percent of people in the Persian Gulf region hate Washington policies in the region, he said.
“Hatred towards the Bush policies has even been on the rise in the European states.”
President George W Bush should know that it is his performance in the Middle East region that has resulted in such a feeling towards his country, Mottaki added.
On Iran’s role in the region, Mottaki said that the Islamic Republic of Iran has repeatedly proved its major role to establish regional stability and security.
Mottaki reiterated that the regional states, due to their common religious and social views, have the readiness to shoulder the responsibility of establishing stability and security in their own region without the help of any foreign country.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers regional cooperation and convergence as a priority to its foreign policy,” he added.
Mottaki said that regional cooperation would not violate rights of any country in the Persian Gulf region.
Briefing the audience on the latest developments over Iran’s nuclear program, he said Tehran welcomes interest of member states of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council to produce nuclear energy.
He voiced Iran’s readiness to share experience with the regional states in the area of nuclear technology.