The crash, which occurred in a mountainous area of northwestern Iran, additionally claimed the lives of Overseas Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and 6 different passengers.
“The Secretary-Basic expresses his honest condolences to the households of the deceased and to the Authorities and other people of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Mr. Guterres’ Spokesperson stated in a statement launched in New York on Monday.
The members of the Security Council joined the Secretary-Basic in expressing condolences as they convened on Monday.
Led by Pedro Comissário Afonso, Everlasting Consultant of Mozambique and Council President for Might, the ambassadors noticed a second of silence in the beginning of the physique’s 9629th assembly.
In line with media reviews, President Raisi’s funeral is scheduled to happen on Tuesday, and all cultural occasions within the nation have been cancelled throughout what’s now an official interval of mourning.
The top of the Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, led a minute of silence in honour of the passing of those that died, at a convention on nuclear safety happening in Vienna on Monday.
IAEA inspectors have been working with authorities for years at Iran’s nuclear websites as a way to restrict capability to purely civilian use.
