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Dec 27, 2005    Iran,s FM meeting with Afghan Senate Speaker

Iran is the best friend and neighbor of Afghanistan, Afghan Senate Speaker Sebghatollah Mojaddadi told Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here on Tuesday.
Mottaki said Iran`s attaches high significance to parliamentary relations with ...

Dec 27, 2005    FM: Foreign policy anchored on friendship with neighbors

Visiting Foreign Minister Monouchehr Mottaki said here Tuesday that Iranian foreign policy was based on the principle of expanding ties with neighboring countries, especially Afghanistan.
He was speaking to a number of Iranian officials and c...

Dec 27, 2005    Iran,s FM meeting with Afghan President

Afghanistan`s President Hamed Karzai in a meeting with Iran`s Foreign Minister in Kabul said that the assistance rendered by Iran has helped Afghanistan to find its rightful place.
He also referred to the many shortcomings in his country due ...

Dec 27, 2005    Iran`s FM confers with Afghan VP

Visiting Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred with Afghanistan Vice-President Ahmad Zia` Masoud here Monday.
According to Foreign Ministry Media Department on Monday, Mottaki said President Karzai visit to Tehran and its outco...

Dec 27, 2005    Mottaki: New chapter to be opened in Iran-Afghanistan relations

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Monday that relations between Iran and Afghanistan have entered a new era and a new chapter in the two countries` relations would soon be opened.
Mottaki, who was speaking at a jo...

Dec 26, 2005    Iran FM meets Afghan national assembly speaker

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting in Kabul on Monday with Speaker of Afghan National Assembly People`s Council (Walesi Jirga) Mohamamd Yunos Qanuni discussed strengthening of Tehran and Kabul relations.
Foreign Ministry...

Dec 26, 2005    Iran, Afghanistan FMs discuss issues of mutual interest

Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Afghan counterpart Abdullah Abdullah discussed bilateral ties and regional issues in Kabul Monday.
Mottaki, for his part, said strengthening relations with neighbours is among the priorities ...

Dec 25, 2005    Outgoing Turkish envoy meets FM

At the end of his diplomatic mission to Iran, the outgoing Turkish Ambassador to Tehran Halit Bozkurt Aran in a meeting with Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki here Sunday bid farewell to him.
According to a report released by the Foreign Min...

Dec 25, 2005    Iran, Tajikistan study expansion of mutual ties

Visiting Tajik Parliament Speaker Saidullo Khairullayev conferred here Sunday with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on expansion of mutual relations as well as regional cooperation.
According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Mini...

Dec 21, 2005    Mottaki: Chemically disabled, proof of Iranians` innocence

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Wednesday that the chemical disabled are proof of the innocence of Iranian people during the Sacred Defense era (1980-88).
Calling Iran a `the major victim of chemical weapons worldwide`, Mottaki ...

Dec 17, 2005    Iran felicitates Iraqi nation, government on parliamentary election

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday felicitated Iraqi nation on landmark parliamentary election on December 15 and hoped that Iraq would be in line with the country`s independence, reconstruction and development.
`Iranian nation a...

Dec 17, 2005    Iran`s FM turns Annan`s attention to US` human rights violations

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Friday, in a letter to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, voiced Iran`s concern over the increasing human rights violations of the US and Islamophobia in the West.
In a letter to the UN secretary-g...

Dec 16, 2005    Iran`s FM says Pakistan trip positive

Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Thursday termed as positive his talks with Pakistani officials.
Mottaki, who made the statement in his talks with reporters at Mehrabad Airport, pointed to Pakistan`s significant position in Ira...

Dec 15, 2005    Iran,s FM meets Pakistani President

Visiting Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred here Thursday with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on expansion of mutual cooperation between the two countries.
The Iranian minister underlined the implementation of gas pipe...

Dec 14, 2005    FM: Iran deeply concerned about US repeated human rights violations

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Tuesday that Tehran is deeply concerned about numerous cases human rights violations by the United States including torture of Muslims as well as members of other religious minorities.
Mottaki ...

Dec 13, 2005    New WFP representative submits copy of credentials to FM

The New United Nations World Food Program (WFP) representative to Tehran, Robert Hauser, conferred with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday on ways of broadening bilateral relations and rendering services to foreign migrants in Iran.
Dec 12, 2005    Nepalese envoy submits copy of credentials to Mottaki

Nepalese Accredited Ambassador to Iran Pushkar Man Singh Rajbhandari on Monday submitted a copy of his credentials to Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.
At the meeting, Mottaki and Man Singh Rajbhandari held talks on ways to develop bilater...

Dec 12, 2005    New Indian envoy submits credentials to FM

New Indian Ambassador to Tehran Manbir Singh in a meeting with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday submitted his credentials to him.
According to a report released by the Media Department of the Foreign Ministry, at the meeting, M...

Dec 12, 2005    FM says world should be free of WMD

Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki Said here Monday that `not only the Middle East but the whole world should be free of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).
` The Foreign Ministry Media Department reported that in a meeting with new Lithuanian ...

Dec 12, 2005    Outgoing Moroccan envoy, FM discuss int`l cooperation

Outgoing Moroccan Ambassador to Tehran Abdelaziz Bennis and Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday conferred on latest developments in bilateral relations and international cooperation between the two states.
According to a report re...

Dec 2, 2005    Turkish parliament speaker invites Iranian counterpart

Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discussed here on Thursday expansion of Tehran-Ankara ties with Turkish Parliament Speaker Bulent Arinc who invited his Iranian counterpart to pay a visit to Turkey.
Referring to the long history of ...

Dec 2, 2005    Mottaki conveys President Ahmadinejad`s message to Turkish PM

Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conveyed a message of friendship from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan here on Thursday evening.
In a meeting with Erdogan, the Iranian minister who arrive...

Dec 2, 2005    Iranian, Turkish FMs discuss regional, int`l issues

Iran`s visiting Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki discussed major bilateral, regional, and international issues with his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul in the capital Ankara on Thursday.
According to Iran`s Foreign Ministry, the two sides...

Dec 1, 2005    Mottaki says Iran, Turkey do not have unresolvable rows

Visiting Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Wednesday, in an interview with the Turkish TV broadcasting Network -NTV-, said that the Iran-Turkey relations are cordial and they do not have any unresolvable rows.
Mottaki said the two nati...

Dec 1, 2005    Iran, Turkey cooperation effective in dealing with regional crises

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with the former Turkish prime minister Necmettin Erbakan here Thursday said that Iran-Turkey cooperation plays a crucial role in dealing with the regional issues and crises.
He...

Dec 1, 2005    Joint Press Coferance in Ankara

Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Manoucher Mottaki, for his part, expressed delight over the opportunity given him of visiting Turkey in his first months at the Iranian Foreign Ministry, and said, `The two countries` long borders are frontiers o...
Dec 1, 2005    Iran ready to strengthen ties with Turkey: Mottaki

Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Wednesday said that the message he was carrying from the new Iranian government was that it was ready to strengthen bilateral relations with Turkey.
Addressing Turkish businessmen and o...