Iran`s Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday the response received from Britain to Iran`s formal note sent to British embassy in Tehran has `different points which can be considered. ` Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters,`following the ille...Mar 30, 2007Mottaki: UK should apologize to Iran
Saudi based daily Al-Riyadh on Friday quoted Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying that the British government as the first step to resolve the issue of its arrested sailors should officially apologize to Iran. In an exclusive i...Mar 30, 2007FMs of Iran, Japan talk about arrested British sailors
Japanese Foreign Minister Taso Aso and his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in a phone conversation on Friday discussed the arrest of British servicemen in Iran`s territorial waters. During the conversation, the Japanese foreign minister...Mar 30, 2007FMs of Iran, Australia discuss arrest of British sailors on phone
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer and his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki in a phone conversation on Friday discussed the arrest of British servicemen in Iran`s territorial waters. Mottaki expounded on the way the British tro...Mar 29, 2007Iranian FM reiterates support for Palestinian ideals
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Wednesday reiterated Iran`s support for Palestine`s ideals, stressing the importance of settling political and economic crisis in the region at the earliest. Mottaki held separate meetings with ...Mar 29, 2007Iranian, Saudi FMs hold talks in Riyadh
Iran`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki on Thursday held talks with his Saudi counterpart Saud Al-Faisal on most important issues of the Islamic world and the Middle East. According to the Foreign Ministry Press Office, at the me...Mar 29, 2007Iran`s FM, Palestinian leaders discuss regional developments
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas and Prime Minister Ismail Haniya late Wednesday in Riyadh discussed the latest developments in the region. The meeting was held on the sidelines of a two-day an...Mar 29, 2007Iranian FM meets OIC secretary general
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Thursday met with Secretary General of Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoghlu on the sidelines of the 19th summit of the Arab heads of state in Riyadh. Pointing to the i...Mar 29, 2007Iranian FM Meets UN Secretary General
The United Nations Secretary General Ban ki Moon said on Thursday that Iran`s rights to attain peaceful nuclear technology should be respected. Ban made the remarks in a meeting with Iran`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki in Riy...Mar 28, 2007Israel should not be allowed to misuse Arab leaders summit, Mottaki
Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday that participants in the summit of leaders of Arab States should not allow the Zionist regime to undermine national aspirations of Palestinians. In the meantime, Mottaki held talks...Mar 28, 2007Mottaki: Iran not to relinquish nuclear rights
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday that Iran will not give up its legitimate nuclear right even one iota. `Iran`s nuclear activities are fully clear and transparent and we will continue our activities until restoratio...Mar 27, 2007Iran will insist on its legitimate NPT rights, Mottaki
Iran`s Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki said on Tuesday that Iranian nation will insist on its legitimate rights stipulated in Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). Mottaki made the remarks in a meeting with the Deputy Foreign Ministe...Mar 26, 2007Certain countries not authorized to misuse UNSC: Mottaki
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Sunday that the UN Security Council belongs to all nations and that a limited number of countries have no right to misuse it. Addressing a press conference, he said the Security Council sho...Mar 26, 2007British, Iranian FMs talk on phone
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his British counterpart Margaret Beckett Sunday evening discussed over the phone the recent arrest in the Iranian territorial waters of 15 British sailors. For his part, Mottaki protested violation of I...Mar 26, 2007Tehran is legally examining case of British sailors: FM
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Sunday that the charge against the British sailors arrested in Iran is illegal entry into Iranian waters and that the issue is being examined legally. Talking to reporters at the United Na...Mar 26, 2007UNSC once issued resolution against nationalization of Iran oil
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in an interview with Spiegel recalled the United Nations Security Council Resolution 50 years ago in which the world body termed nationalization of Iranian oil industry as `detrimental to international pe...Mar 25, 2007Mottaki : Iran not to give up demands under any sanction, threat
Iran`s Foreign Minister Mr Manouchehr Mottaki said Saturday that no sanction or threat can make the Iranian nation retreat from its legal and legitimate demands. `The world must know - and it does - that even the harshest political and economi...Mar 20, 2007FM welcomes trilateral Iran-5+1-UNSC talks
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday welcomed the idea of trilateral Iran-5+1 Group-UNSC talks to end the discords on the country`s nuclear activities for peaceful purposes. The statement was made in a short interview with IRNA afte...Mar 19, 2007New Ukrainian envoy meets Mottaki
The new Ukrainian Ambassador to Tehran Igor Loginov in a meeting with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday submitted a copy of his credentials to him. At the meeting, Mottaki and the Ukrainian diplomat discussed the latest developm...Mar 17, 2007Mottaki: Talks only way to reach comprehensive solution to nuclear dispute
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Friday night that Iran still insists on negotiation as the only way to reach a rational and comprehensive solution to Iran`s nuclear case. Mottaki was speaking to IRNA in an exclusive int...Mar 17, 2007Iran, Turkmenistan to set up joint border committee
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Friday evening suggested that Iran and Turkmenistan form a joint committee to attend to border affairs by next June. His suggestion was made during a meeting with the five cabinet members of the...Mar 16, 2007Iranian FM Meets Turkmen President
Turkmenistan`s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov in a meeting here Friday afternoon with Iran`s Foreign Minister supported our country`s peaceful nuclear program. Pointing out that Iran`s peaceful nuclear activities are in line with the l...Mar 16, 2007Peaceful use of nuclear energy, Iran`s right: FM
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Friday that Tehran does not intend to have a conflict with the UN but has the right to use nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. Mottaki made the statement while speaking to Italian daily `La...Mar 15, 2007Iranian FM meets with Italian counterpart, PM
Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki met with Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi and Foreign Minister Massimo d`Alema Wednesday evening to discuss major regional and international developments. Mottaki arrived in Rome Wednesd...Mar 14, 2007Slovenian PM, Iran`s FM discuss issues of mutual interest
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa in a meeting with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Ljublijana, Capital of Slovenia, said Slovenia believes in Iran`s right to access nuclear technology but insists on political negotiations to solve the pr...Mar 14, 2007Slovenian president rejects discrimination in nuclear activities
Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek in meeting with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Ljublijana, capital of Slovenia, said international organizations should not have discriminatory policies towards nuclear activities of different countries.Mar 14, 2007Iran, Slovakia to open embassies
Iran and Slovakia will open embassies in Tehran and Bratislava respectively, it was announced on Wednesday. Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, and his Slovak counterpart, Jan Kubis, reached agreement on opening embassies in each other`s ca...Mar 13, 2007Iran always supportive of human rights: FM
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in Geneva on Monday said that Iran, as a responsible and active member of the United Nations, has always supported efforts to promote human rights all over the world as called for by its Islamic system. Mot...Mar 13, 2007Mottaki, OIC secretary general review regional developments
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred on Tuesday with the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu on latest regional, global developments and those of Muslim World. The meeting was held o...Mar 13, 2007Mottaki appreciates ICRC action to visit Iranian kidnapped diplomats
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki appreciated International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) and its representative`s action in visiting the Iranian kidnapped diplomats in Iraq. According to Foreign Ministry Media Department report Monday, Mot...Mar 12, 2007Iran, Switzerland discuss mutual ties, global developments
Iran`s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred on Monday with Swiss President and Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey on issues of mutual interests. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the fourth United Nations Human Rights Counci...Mar 11, 2007Iran, Afghanistan keen to expand ties
Deputy Foreign Minister for educational and research affairs, Manouchehr Mohammadi and Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta in the second round-table meeting between the two countries here Sunday urged the need to expand and strengthen bila...Mar 11, 2007Mottaki: Discrimination in use of technology is an injustice
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Sunday that any discrimination in utilization and exploitation of the latest and modern technology would be an injustice and tyrannical. `They (the westerners) did not act on their commitments and...Mar 8, 2007Iranian-Iraqi Foreign Ministers Talk on the Phone
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, in a telephone conversation Thursday with his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki, said Iran`s presence in the Baghdad security conference scheduled for Saturday was essential. `Due to the current si...Mar 8, 2007Mottaki calls for cooperation in building oil tanks for Comoros
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with his Comorese counterpart here Wednesday called for trilateral cooperation between Iran, Comoros and Venezuela in building oil tanks in Comoros coasts. Mottaki added Comoros has an appropr...Mar 8, 2007Peace pipeline a new chapter in Iran, Indian subcontinent relations: Mottaki
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in meeting with India`s Minister without Portfolio in Foreign Relations Ahmed Vazir here Wednesday underlined that construction of the peace pipeline is a new chapter in Iran and Indian subcontinent relations.Mar 6, 2007Iran`s foreign relations need to be balanced - Mottaki
IRI Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Monday Iran`s foreign relations is in need of `being balanced and unified. ` Speaking at opening session of Islamic Republic of Iran`s ambassadors at Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in ...Mar 6, 2007Iran-Venezuela ties founded on joint interests, concerns: Mottaki
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Tuesday that relations between Iran and Venezuela were based on common interests and concerns. Mottaki`s remarks came during a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro Moros.Mar 6, 2007IAEA not in position to suspend cooperation with Iran: FM
here Tuesday the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) cannot unilaterally suspend its cooperation with Iran under international law, rules and regulations. Mottaki was addressing reporters at a joint press conference with Venezuelan Fore...Mar 6, 2007Mottaki: No change in Iran`s peaceful nuclear program
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Tuesday that no change has been made in Iran`s peaceful nuclear program. Mottaki made the remarks in his joint press conference with the Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal in Tehran.Mar 6, 2007Mottaki reaffirms support for Palestine
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Tuesday reaffirmed Iranian support for Palestinian nation. Mottaki made the remarks in a joint press conference with the Head of Hamas Political Bureau Khaled Meshaal. He said that Iran supports th...Mar 6, 2007Mottaki: Iran keen on cooperation with Africa, including Chad
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with his counterpart from Chad, Ahmad Allam-Mi on Monday said that in its foreign relations, Iran gives special attention to the African continent and its capacities. Underlining bilateral frie...Mar 5, 2007Iran studying its presence in Baghdad meeting: FM
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here on Monday that Iran was still considering the matter of whether it will send it deputy foreign minister to attend the upcoming security meeting in Baghdad scheduled for March 11. Mottaki was addre...Mar 5, 2007Iran advises IAEA Board of Governors to defend findings on Iran
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki here Monday recommended Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to defend the agency`s findings on Iranian nuclear program. Mottaki told reporters in a joint press conference wit...Mar 4, 2007Mottaki: Common stances a strong backing for Tehran, Islamabad
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Sunday that common stances serve as a strong backing for Tehran and Islamabad. In a meeting with Pakistan`s deputy foreign minister Khalid Khattak here on Sunday, Mottaki said Iran and Pakistan have cl...Mar 4, 2007FAO representative confers with Mottaki
New Representative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Shahed Najm on Sunday held talks with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki. The foreign minister hoped that Mr Najm would be successful in developing close cooperation betwee...Mar 3, 2007Iranian FM meets Saudi counterpart
On the sidelines of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad`s meeting with the Saudi King Abdullah here Saturday, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki conferred with his Saudi counterpart Saud al-Faisal on matters of mutual concern. At the meeting the t...Mar 2, 2007FM Press Conference in Madrid
Minister of Foreign Affairs Manouchehr Mottaki said on Thursday that the age of discriminatory international ties was over and that the language of threats is no more effective. The minister made the remarks while attending a press conference...Mar 1, 2007Iranian FM calls for justice-based economy worldwide
Iranian foreign minister said in an international gathering here on Thursday that a justice-based economy model is needed for the world today. Addressing the first international conference of average income countries, Manouchehr Mottaki said ...Mar 1, 2007Iranian FM Meets Spanish FM
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting with his Spanish counterpart, Miguel Angel Moratinos on Thursday said that the talks between Iran`s top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana have prepared the pr...
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