TEHRAN Palestinian Ambassador to Tehran Salah al-Zawawi sought here on Monday a support for Palestine by the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) member states.
In a meeting with the Head of Majlis (Parliament) Committee for National Security and Foreign Policy Mohsen Mirdamadi, he called for an extra session of the Parliamentary Union of OIC member states.
"Any withdrawal of the autonomous Palestinian government from its stances on the issue of the holy Al-Qods and restoration of the Palestinian refugees is doomed," he said.
"Establishment of an independent Palestine with Qods as its capital is what wanted by the Palestinian and world Muslims." For his part, Mirdamadi reiterated on the point that Iran shares with Palestinian griefs.
He said that Qods belongs to all Muslims and called for unity among the Islamic states regarding Palestine.
Mirdamadi noted that Tehran supports any session by the Islamic states to defend Palestine.
The 18th meeting of the Al-Qods Committee of the OIC, currently headed by Iran concluded work on August 28 in the southern Moroccan city of Agadir with a call for the resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and for east Bait-ul-Moqaddas to be the capital of a future Palestinian state.
"The Al-Qods Committee calls for the resumption of peace talks based on the UN land-for-peace resolution," the committee said in a statement after their meeting.
"The committee confirms its support for the state of Palestine and its sovereignty over Al-Qods and all the holy Islamic and Christian shrines. It also confirms that Al-Qods is the capital of an independent Palestinian state," it added.
In another meeting with Moroccan Ambassador to Tehran Jamaladdin Ghazi Monday, Mirdamadi stressed the important role of the unity and solidarity among the Islamic countries in consolidating the standing of the Muslim world in the new international order.
Mirdamadi said the development of the parliamentary relations prepare the ground for reinforcement of the intergovernmental ties and voiced the preparedness of Iran's Parliament to exchange parliamentary delegations with Muslim countries.
Launching widespread black propaganda against Islamic world, the Western media erroneously claim that Islam and democracy are in contradiction with each other.
The democracy in the eyes of Islam is different from the Western-style democracy but today we are to prove that democracy and Islam could be in agreement with each other.
(IRNA)