Pope Benedict, in his first Easter message, called today for an ‘‘honourable solution’’ to the nuclear standoff with Iran, an independent Palestinian state, and global cooperation to combat terrorism.

The German Pope, speaking on his 79th birthday, made his appeal for world peace in his Easter ‘‘Urbi et Orbi’’ (to the city and the world) message to some 100,000 people as he concluded the first Easter season of his pontificate.

In the speech, televised to millions of viewers in more than 65 countries at the end of Easter Sunday mass in the St

Peter’s square, the head of the Roman Catholic Church listed his worries about a world he said was living through ‘‘uncertainty and anxiety’’ and oppressed by widespread suffering.

‘‘Concerning the international crises linked to nuclear power, may an honourable solution be found for all parties, through serious and honest negotiations ... ’’ he said in reference to Iran.