Stéphane Dujarric, who serves spokesman for the office of UN chief, said in a statement on Monday that Guterres had offered his “sincere condolences” to the families of the deceased and to the Government and people of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“The Secretary-General is saddened by the death of H.E. Mr. Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, H.E. Mr. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Minister for Foreign Affairs, and their colleagues in a helicopter accident on 19 May” said the statement.
IRNA