Iran's new acting foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi is to accompany President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a regional summit in Turkey next week, his first foray abroad since taking up the job, the Mehr news agency reported Wednesday.
Iran's new acting foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi is to accompany
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to a regional summit in Turkey next week, his
first foray abroad since taking up the job, the Mehr news agency reported
Wednesday.
"Mr. Salehi will accompany the president on his visit to
Turkey
,"
the Iranian ambassador in
Ankara
told
Mehr. "It will be the first visit abroad by the acting foreign
minister."
Salehi, who was appointed Monday after Ahmadinejad fired Manouchehr Mottaki in
an apparent falling out over nuclear policy, retains his previous position as
chief negotiator in talks on the issue with the major powers.
Turkey
is to
host the next round of those talks in
Istanbul
in
late January after a first round in
Geneva
earlier this month.
The issue is expected to come up in Salehi's talks with his Turkish
counterpart, Ahmet Davutoglu.
Turkey
maintains good relations with neighboring
Iran
and
has attempted to broker a face-saving compromise in its protracted standoff
with the West over its nuclear program.
In May, it joined
Brazil
in
negotiating a nuclear fuel swap deal with
Iran
but
the agreement was ignored by the
U.S.
,
which pushed ahead with leading the United Nations Security Council in imposing
new sanctions.
Ahmadinejad will be attending the Dec. 23 summit of the Economic Co-operation
Organization, which groups
Iran
and
Turkey
with
Pakistan
and
central Asian states.
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