United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for Iran's assistance to resolve the hostage-taking crisis in Afghanistan, the official IRNA news agency reported.
The UN chief made the remarks in a telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, IRNA said.
"The United Nations is doing what it can to help resolve the crisis and secure release of the South Korean nationals," Ban said.
For his part, Mottaki offered Iran's full cooperation with the United Nations and the Afghan government in order to help release the hostages, IRNA reported.
Mottaki condemned the Taliban for taking hostage the South Korean nationals and killing of two of them as inhumane and terrorist act.
He also sympathized with families of the two slain South Korean nationals and called on the UN secretary-general to do his best to help release the hostages from Taleban custody.
Ban thanked Mottaki for his sympathy with the bereaved families of the South Korean victims.
Taliban militants, who abducted 23 South Koreans on July 19, have shot dead two of them so far and vowed to execute the remaining if the Afghan government fails to meet their demand which includes the release of their eight Taliban comrades.
Source: Xinhua
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