ISLAMABAD — Chairman of Pakistan National Assembly Standing Committee onForeign Affairs said on Thursday that the US decision to impose sanctionsagainst Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would harm alldiplomatic norms.
In an interview with IRNA Malik Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Tiwana said thediplomatic norms should be respected and issues should always be resolvedon table.
“Anything against the spirit of that is detrimental for the peace efforts,”he pointed out.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message thanked US forconsidering him as a huge threat to their agenda. “The US’ reason fordesignating me is that I am Iran’s “primary spokesperson around the world,”Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in his Twitter account.
Malik Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Tiwana in his views said: “We were always askingboth Iran and the US to resolve their issues peacefully and imposition ofsanctions by the US is not a positive trend, we need to have constantcontact to resolve the issues.”
Parliamentarian from the ruling party went on to say that Pakistan hasalways been in a contention to resolve the matters and defuse the issuesand facilitate getting away with the misunderstandings.
“We would again wish to play our role in normalizing the terms between Iranand the US,” said Malik Muhammad Ehsan Ullah Tiwana.
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Chairman of Pakistan National Assembly Standing Committee on ForeignAffairs added that how much serious the tensions are, the diplomaticcontacts need to remain there. He noted that even in previous cold warSoviet Union and the US maintained their diplomacy.
“We need to learn from the past, this doesn’t resolve the issue, yes thereare diplomatic tactics but we always feel that there should be a normaldiplomatic ties and all the matters should be resolved on the table and wehope that this issue will be resolved in a diplomatic manner amicably,”said the lawmaker.
He said that one should abstain from agitating the matter and escalatingit. Tiwana expressing his views said that Iran is a responsible nation andis trying to deal all matters diplomatically.
The official believed that if one party is offensive then other needs to besober, so we hope that the peace prevails.
