Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called on the members of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) to consider restoration of peace and tranquility in Syria as a main agenda.

Salehi made the remarks in a meeting with his Lebanese counterpart Adnan Mansour on Monday.

NAM is an international organization of states considering themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc. NAM is the largest grouping of countries outside of the United Nations. NAM is comprised of some 120 member states and 17 observer countries.

Mansour, for his part, dismissed military intervention and foreign interference in Syria, and underlined the important role of the NAM members in settling the problems in the Arab country.

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country.

Hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed, when some protest rallies turned into armed clashes.

The government blames outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorist groups for the deaths, stressing that the unrest is being orchestrated from abroad.

In October 2011, calm was eventually restored in the Arab state after President Assad started a reform initiative in the country, but Israel, the US and its Arab allies are seeking hard to bring the country into chaos through any possible means. Tel Aviv, Washington and some Arab capitals have been staging various plots in the hope of increasing unrests in Syria.

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