Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Director of the Public Diplomacy Department, stated that Sameh Shukri, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, received a phone call yesterday evening, Sunday, from Dr. Hussein Amir Abdollahian, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran.
The Foreign Ministry spokesman stated that the call included an exchange of views and assessments about the deteriorating field and humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip, and paths of action to alleviate the burden of human suffering to which Palestinians in the Strip are exposed under the weight of the continuing Israeli bombing.
Sameh Shukri was keen to stress the danger of expanding the scope of the conflict and the spread of violence to include other regions in a way that threatens the stability of the region and portends consequences whose extent and repercussions are difficult to predict.
In a related context, the Iranian Foreign Minister thanked the role played by Egypt in providing humanitarian aid to the people of the Gaza Strip, as the two ministers agreed on the necessity of coordinating efforts at the regional and international levels to provide safe and sustainable access to humanitarian and relief aid to Gaza.
Ambassador Abu Zeid added that Sameh Shoukry briefed his Iranian counterpart on the results of the Cairo Peace Summit, and the outcome of the deliberations and meetings that took place during the summit and on its sidelines, expressing his aspiration to build on the Cairo Summit as the first unified effort of regional and international parties, in order to interact politically with the crisis by identifying... Joint spaces to move and search for solutions that lead to stopping the escalation, and consultation on the future of dealing with the Palestinian issue.