PALESTINIAN CONFERENCE CONCLUDES ITS WORK IN TEHRAN

IRNA website
16 Apr 06

Tehran, 16 April: The Third International Conference on Qods and
Support for the Rights of Palestinian People concluded its work here
on Sunday [16 April].

The final declaration of the conference was read by MP from Tehran and
head of the committee in charge of codification of the declaration,
Hoseyn Sheykholeslam.

The conference kicked off here Friday evening with a keynote speech
by the supreme leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed
Ali Khamene’i.

President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad, Majlis Speaker Gholamali Haddad-Adel,
judiciary chief Mahmud Hashemi-Shahrudi as well as domestic and foreign
political and cultural figures participated in the opening ceremony
of the conference, organized upon the initiative of the supreme leader.

The conference was attended by 600 foreign officials including 20
parliament speakers from Syria, Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan, Indonesia,
Uganda, Cameroon, Congo, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leon, Cuba, Comoros,
Madagascar, Malaysia, Qatar, Mauritania, Mauritius, the Seychelles,
Sri Lanka and Guinea.

Eleven parliament vice-Speakers from Libya, Palestine, Jordan,
Morocco, Bahrain, Oman, Tunisia, the Philippines, Gambia, Togo and
Senegal were also present in the conference.

Representatives from parliaments of South Africa, Kuwait, Russia,
Mexico, Kenya, Somalia, Benin, Mali, Bosnia, Armenia and Albania were
among other participants in the conference.

Political figures, personalities, intellectuals discussed Palestine
issues from different points of view as the most basic issue of the
Islamic world.

Over 200 foreign reporters residing in Tehran along with 50 foreign
and 200 domestic reporters covered the conference.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress