(IRNA) - Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said that Iran will seriously pursue the issue of human rights violation in Canada.
He made the remark while speaking to domestic and foreign media along with his Malaysian counterpart, Hamid Al-Bar.
"Iran's resolution against Canada may not be welcomed in the current year due to the world countries' ignorance of the issue, reports Trend.
"However, based on Iran's policy, pursuance of the matter is considered as a serious human rights matter," he said.
Iran's anti-Canada resolution, which centers on the situation of the country's indigenous residents and religious minorities did not gain enough votes at the United Nations General Assembly's third committee meeting.
Mottaki noted that Canada had better respond to the human community about its approach to its indigenous residents.
"This was the first time Iran submitted a resolution against Canada's horrible, yet modern violation of the rights of the indigenous residents of this country," he said.
Mottaki's reaction is in response to a resolution issued by Canada against Iran on Tuesday at the UN General Assembly's third committee meeting, which was approved by gaining 70 positive votes.
Meanwhile, 48 member states voted against it and 55 others either abstained from voting or did not participate in it.
"The human rights dossier of Canada's boss, namely the US and West, in the region is not defensible. The US secret prisons across the world and its barbaric tortures at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay prisons leave no ground for defending the human rights claims by the West.
"Iran considers the silence of world countries on the US secret prisons as their cooperation with the US regime on the issue," said the minister.
He pointed to Canada's support for the crimes of the Zionist regime and said that the black dossier of the Canadian government in support of its boss (the US), which has ommitted many anti-human crimes in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan as well as Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons, can never be defended.
Mottaki said that Iran supports the human rights based on Islamic instructions and human respect.
Condemning the assassination of the Lebanese minister of industries, he said that it proved that the enemies of Lebanon's unity and solidarity masterminded the terrorist move.
He hoped that the current problems in Lebanon, which are the cause of deep concern of Islamic states will be solved through talks among Lebanese officials.