Statement by

Ms. Elhameh Paydar

Third Secretary

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Before the Third Committee of the 77th Session of the General Assembly

On Agenda Items 69 (b): “Right to Education”

New York, 18 October 2022

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

Mr. Chairman,

My delegation thanks the  Special Rapporteur on the right to education for her report (document A/77/324).

Mr. Chairman,

As it’s rightfully pointed out in the report, there are substantial developmental, educational, social, cultural and economic benefits to ECCE, for children, their families and communities and the societies in which they live.

Access to quality education without discrimination for all, is protected under the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The Islamic Republic of Iran continues to provide free and qualitative education for all. During the covid-19 crisis the Ministry of Education took significant measures in line with the “4 As” including Availability, Accessibility, Acceptability and Adaptibility stipulated in the report  toward remote learning approaches, including but not limited to providing more than 2,000 hours of educational programs on TV and launch of a domestic educational application to facilitate online distance learning called “ SHAD”  to meet the training  needs of 13 million and five hundred thousands of students and teachers including the refugees, throughout the country.

the Government of Iran has done its utmost efforts to implement inclusive policies  to provide equal access to education for all Iranian children.

Mr. Chairman,

While the SR called upon states to spend 10 per cent of national education budgets on pre-primary education, I would like to seek the views of Madam SR on "how best, the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on the national income of victim countries at international level could be tackled,' in order to assist victim countries to achieve their commitments on pre-primary education?

Thank you