Mr. Haakon Blanken Borg, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee; Mrs. Kaci Kullman Five, Vice-chairman of the committee from the leadership of the Conservative Party; Mr. Kjell Magne Bondevik, former Foreign Minister and leader of the Christian Party's parliamentary group; Mr. Eric Solheim, leader of the Socialist Party; and Mrs. Anne Mary Lanstein, leader of the Center Party, as well as a number of other members of the Foreign Affairs Committee were present in this one and a half hour meeting.
Mrs. Rajavi elaborated on the serious threat posed by the mullahs to regional and international peace and security. She admired the courageous measures taken by the Government of Norway to downgrade trade and diplomatic relations with the mullahs' religious terrorist dictatorship. The only effective policy for countering Iran's ruling mullahs, President Rajavi emphasized, is practice of decisiveness and enforcement of comprehensive diplomatic and trade embargo on the regime on the one hand, and recognition of the Iranian people's nationwide Resistance and their democratic alternative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on the other.
The Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee welcomed Mrs. Rajavi and said: As elected representatives of the people of Norway, we are concerned about the violations of human rights in Iran as well as the regime's export of terrorism. We are also abreast of the efforts and resistance of yourself and the movement you lead for the establishment of democracy in Iran and profoundly respect it.
At the conclusion of the meeting, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect and the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Norwegian Parliament fielded questions of foreign and local journalists at a press conference. Mrs. Rajavi subsequently visited different parts of the Parliament, paid homage to the memorial of the martyrs of Norway's Resistance in the First and Second World War and presented a copy of the List of Names and Particulars of 14,028 Victims of the Khomeini Regime's Executions, martyrs of the Iranian Resistance, to the Parliament of Norway.
Several hours before Mrs. Rajavi's arrival at the Parliament, a large number of Iranians residing Norway had come to the site, waiting for the Resistance's President-elect with baskets of flowers. At the time of her arrival and departure, Iranians warmly expressed their emotions in her support and against the Khomeini regime. As she left the Parliament of Norway, Mrs. Rajavi responded to her compatriots' expressions of support.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran - Paris October 27, 1995
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