He made the remarks in a message sent on the International Day of Older Persons ( October 1), the UN Information Center (UNIC) to Tehran reported Thursday.
The full text of his message reads:
“Today, we celebrate the International Day of Older Persons under the theme, “The Future We Want: What Older Persons Are Saying”. Indeed, with 841 million older persons in the world in 2013, representing almost 12 per cent of the world’s population, we can no longer afford not to listen to what they are saying.
