متن لاتین سخنرانی جناب آقای سید صادق خرازی در میزگرد ایران و استرالیا

Excellencies,

Distinguished

Ladies and Gentlemen

I would like to welcome the distinguished guests and other participants, my intellectual friends and colleagues. I extend my sincer grat itute to those who have endeavored to enhance mutual interaction, understanding and cooperation between Islamic Republic of IRAN and AUSTRALIA. Such events like today is roundtable undoubtedly could best serve to provide a forum for exchanging views and achievement the constructive outcomes, in all bilateral, regional and International grounds. In addition, I deem my duty to express again my thanks for your very warm hospitality during my last year visit to Australia for first leg of Iran- Australia round table. Iran - Australia bilateral relations during last 40 years have been always cordial and friendly. But since 1999 the ties between two countries has expanded with a favorable speed. Several Delegations have been exchanged between Iran and Australia. There are many common grounds and mutual interests in both bilateral and multilateral fields for further cooperation. Iran as an ancient civilization and Australia as an important developed country could share the rule to enhance the heritage of humankind. All states and nations, and the intellectual and political elites of all countries including Iran and Australia should cooperate with one another both for the advancement of bilateral relations and improvement the environment of International politics. The question we face in this regards is: "How can we use this existing potentials to promote our bilateral relations, regional and global security?" For fulfillment of these purposes, we need to have a constructive interaction and understanding each other better and deeper. During two last decades. Iran and Australia had fairly good cooperation bilaterally and in field of international organizations, with regards to international issues such as disarmament, Human Rights, drug trafficking, environment and terrorism. In regarding to economic cooperation, both countries have discussed means of in creasing two-way trade, and Iran also has tried to trans form the trade relations into along lasting economic relationship that include investment, credit links, trans for of technology and so on, but unfortunately it has not been very successful. Further more I believe there is good potentials for expanding into new sectors such as information technology, telecommunication agricultural technology and tourism. In cultural and scientific fields, both countries seriously seeking to advance the existing relationships. The presence of around 50,000 first and second generation Iranian in Australia nearly 800 government sponsored Iran is tendency to promote the level of cooperation in related fields. With regards the political issues, I believe Asia and its security are very important, and Iran and Australia both can play a constructive role with respect to independent and values of other states, and of course in cooperation with other Asian countries. We need to define an Asian security ourselves.

At the end, I would like to talk about Iran is foreign policy during the khatamy is presidency:

Generally speaking, our foreign policy is biased on betante and confidence building so we could expand our friendly Relation ships with Arab Persian Gulf states and European countries. On the other hand the word welcomed notion on dialogue among civilization . Thank you again for participation and pay attention to my address.