Emir of Qatar: PGCC Has No Dispute With Iran |
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Qatari leader, Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani, has warned that Doha will not let any country to turn the Persian Gulf into a war zone.
His warning comes amid a climate of rising tensions in the region and mounting US and Israel threats to attack Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium for its civilian nuclear program, Presstv reported.
"There is no diversity of opinion between Iran and members of the Persian Gulf Cooperation Council over the country's nuclear program," Sheikh Hamad who is the current head of the PGCC, told reporters on the sidelines of a summit in Syria. Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani.
Noting that the six-nation council seeks a long term relationship with the Islamic Republic, the emir stressed that tensions in the region is not in the interest of any county.
"With the exception of the UAE, no Persian Gulf state has a problem with Iran. The conflict between them is because of the three disputed islands. We support the proposition of taking this dispute to the International Court of Justice so it can be resolved," he said.
The United Arab Emirates regularly makes territorial claims against the Islamic Republic, claiming that it owns the three islands (Greater Tunb, Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa).
While Iran's sovereignty over the strategic islands in the Persian Gulf is supported by history and geography, Abu Dhabi has managed to gain the support of regional Arab states for its claim strongly dismissed by Iranian and other unbiased historians and teachers of political geography.
The islands were formally returned to Iranian sovereignty by Great Britain on November 30th 1971, when the former imperial power abandoned all its Persian Gulf protectorates and territories through a legal process and before the UAE was born.
According to international conventions, no state can reverse or refuse to recognize the legitimacy of accords that have come into force before its inception unless the same were officially declared null and void soon after the state was created.
© Iran Daily 2008
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