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India's Foreign Minister Arrives in Tehran

Posted on: Friday, 2 September 2005, 12:00 CDT

Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website

Tehran, 2 September: India's Foreign Minister Natwar Singh arrived in Tehran Friday [2 September] atop a high ranking political delegation.

The high ranking Indian delegation was welcomed by Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki at the airport.

In welcoming ceremony, Mottaki evaluated mutual relations, as "Old, friendly and expanding" and said, "deepening and expansion of bilateral ties would be the topic of our negotiations."

The fields of cooperation between Iran and India are wide and diversified, he noted, "and cooperation in the field of energy is among the issues which would be followed in Tehran this time." Mottaki also notified, "International and regional issues are also on the agenda of our talks with Indian high-ranking officials." Expressing pleasure over travelling to Tehran, Premier Natwar Singh, too, said, "I am conveying Indian nation message to the Iranians for the success of Iran's new President Ahmadinezhad in election."

India's foreign minister in his three-day visit to Tehran will confer with President Ahmadinezhad and some other Iranian senior officials.

Currently, trade exchange values between Iran and India is more than 3bn dollars annually, which is expected to rise drastically upon exploitation of the existing potentials, particularly in energy field.

India is to buy 5m tonnes of Iran's Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) annually as of the year 2009.

Source: BBC Monitoring Middle East

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