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Macron ‘Ready to Continue Humanitarian Cooperation with Iran’

Macron ‘Ready to Continue Humanitarian Cooperation with Iran’
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By Staff, Agencies

French President Emmanuel Macron stated the readiness of France and European partners to continue their humanitarian cooperation with Iran, the Elysee Palace said in a statement.

Making the comments in a phone conversation with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani, the French presidential palace added: "The President of the Republic had a meeting today with the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. He expressed solidarity with the Iranian people, severely affected by the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic."

"He recalled that France and its European partners had delivered medical equipment to Iran and were ready to continue humanitarian cooperation", the statement added.

Iran is one of the countries hardest hit by COVID-19 and has been struggling to slow the outbreak, a task made more difficult as the nation is under severe trade sanctions by the Trump administration.

Tehran, along with many world officials and organizations, has repeatedly called on Washington to ease its unilateral economic sanctions to help the country tackle the spread of the pandemic.

Russia and China, along with other nations, have consistently called on the administration of US President Donald Trump to lift the sanctions, and have sent humanitarian aid and medical professionals to Iran in a bid to help the coronavirus-hit country.

As of Monday, Iran has seen 136 new coronavirus-related deaths in the past 24 hours, bringing the country's overall death toll to 3,739, along with 60,500 confirmed infection cases, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.

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