"Unfair international system no more effective"

Kuala Lumpur, 2008 July 8, IRNA
 
The current unfair system prevailing international relations has completely lost its effectiveness and failed to settle existing challenges, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran said here on Tuesday.

In his address to the opening session of the sixth Summit of the Eight Islamic Developing Countries (D-8), he regretted that the current international relations system has not been successful in promoting global peace and security.

In many cases, this system is the main cause of crises, the Iranian president said.

As a clear sign of ineffectiveness of the existing system governing the international relations, he referred to the critical status of innocent people, particularly women and children, in Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and many other world countries, as well as proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, expansion of military bases, blatant violation of human rights and setting up of several secret prisons.

It is crystal clear that the current international economic system has "reached a deadlock", the Iranian president reiterated.

He argued that the current food and energy crises as well as dollar devaluation and the fall of countries' foreign exchange deposits and increasing poverty worldwide were open examples of the failure of the current international economic system.

The theme of the ongoing D-8 summit is 'Meeting Challenges Through Innovative Cooperation'.