IRNA � Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Finnish counterpart Timo Soini discussed bilateral and regional issues.


Timo Soini earlier announced that Finland will stop selling arms to Saudi Arabia and the UAE for their role in humanitarian crisis in Yemen.

Zarif is in New York to attend United Nations General Assembly annual Conference on 'Remarking and Promoting International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace'.

Elaborating on his participation in the United Nations General Assembly annual Conference on 'Remarking and Promoting International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace', he said �I think the international community these days what requires more is to push more multilateralism to try to defeat the rising unilateralism, particularly exercised by the United States so I had to make that point to the General Assembly.�

�I also used this opportunity to meet with both the secretary general and the president of the General Assembly as well as with various think tanks here in New York to discuss exactly the need for multilateralism and avoiding the rule of jungle that some people in Washington want to push,� he added.

According to the UN official website, 'the International Day was officially approved on December 12, 2018 through resolution A/RES/73/127. 24 April of every year is designated as the day for the international observance.'

'As emphasized in the resolution, the International Day is a reaffirmation of the UN Charter and its principles of resolving disputes among countries through peaceful means. It acknowledges the use of multilateral decision-making and diplomacy in achieving peaceful resolutions to conflicts among nations,' it added.