ISLAMABAD – Pakistan responds over Iranian admission of shooting downUkrainian plane.
Pakistan Foreign Minister (FM) Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday hopedIran’s admission of its mistake on the airplane accident will ease tensionsin the region.
“Iran’s confession of downing Ukrainian passenger plane should ease uptensions as the region can neither endure tension nor can it tolerate waranymore,” he said.
FM Qureshi reiterated that Pakistan would play an active role to reducegrowing tensions in the region.
“On Prime Minister Imran Khan’s instructions I am going to visit Iran, andwe plan on visiting Saudi Arabia and the United States of America shortlyafter,” he said.
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Iranian armed forces on Saturday admitted that they unintentionally shotdown the Ukrainian airliner that crashed this week and blamed “human error”for the mistake.
The aircraft, which crashed earlier killing all 176 people on board, wasmistaken for a “hostile plane” and was hit while enemy threats were at thehighest level, according to a press statement published by the official*IRNA* news agency.
