Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Wednesday the Sharm el-Sheikh summit on Middle East peace had had "no tangible result", and had raised "an enormous doubt" over the region's future.
The meeting Monday and Tuesday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort "wound up with no tangible result. If the Israeli soldiers withdrew, it was to try and calm the Palestinian anger," the official news agency IRNA reported Kharrazi as telling ambassadors from non-Muslim countries.
"This summit raises an enormous doubt" over the future of the Middle East, said Kharrazi whose country is hostile to the peace process and backs the Palestinians' "new Intifada."
He went on: "The efforts of the western countries are important to bring peace to the region. But what the western countries, especially the Europeans, must do is to put more pressure on Israel."
Meanwhile, Iranian television reported that Kharrazi asked Germany in a telephone conversation with Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to use its influence with Israel to "make it withdraw".
Fischer expressed his concern over the "explosive situation" in the region, the television said.
In another telephone call with the European Union's top diplomat Javier Solana, high representative for foreign policy and common security, Kharrazi said that "the provocation of the Zionist regime" were behind the current wave of violence – TEHRAN (AFP)
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