TEHRAN — Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei says Iran prevented the inclusion of two divisive paragraphs on Yemen in the final communiqué of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers’ meeting in Baghdad, Iraq.
Baghaei made the remarks at his weekly press conference in Tehran on Tuesday, two days after the OIC foreign ministers concluded their two-day meeting in Iraq.
At the Baghdad meeting in solidarity with Saudi Arabia amid its ongoing conflict with Yemen, the spokesperson said the resolution should be distinguished from the Baghdad Declaration.
“The resolution must be distinguished from the Baghdad Declaration. The most important outcome of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Baghdad was the final communiqué, which is usually adopted by consensus. About one or two hours before the communiqué was adopted, it was proposed that the text should not include any issues that could cause divisions among Islamic countries. Specifically, this referred to Yemen,” he said.
“Labeling part of the Islamic community at an Islamic gathering runs counter to the philosophy behind the establishment of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and its ideals of Islamic unity and solidarity. We repeatedly emphasized this point and ultimately