Iran dismisses US human trafficking allegations

In reaction to the US recent move against Iran regarding human trafficking, he said, “We believe the US government is trying to distract world public opinion from the responsibilities it shoulders under the relevant international treaties and conventions through such acts. That’s for the same reason that we consider the US move in preparing fake reports and leveling accusations against the independent countries doomed.”

Iran as a signatory to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (the Palermo Convention) has so far undertaken extensive executive and legal measures in the field of fighting the evil phenomenon of human trafficking which have been verified by relevant international organizations and mentioned in UN Office on Countering Drugs and Crime.

Iran believes that special attention should be paid to basic issues surrounding trafficking and exploitation of mankind, children and women in particular, in campaigning the global challenge, he said, noting that US interfering and destabilizing policies worldwide, particularly in West Asia and Africa, have prepared the ground for the expansion of transnational felony networks of human trafficking.

Touching on the US president’s recent demand from the executive directors of IMF and multilateral development banks not to support granting facilities to Iran, Qasemi said that such statements of Trump indicates his ignorance about international organization’s working procedures, as they are considered meddling in international institutes’ affairs and detrimental to their independent international legal personality.

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