President Ahmadinejad Meets Arab Elites In Kuwait

Kuwait City, Oct 17, IRNA – Visiting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran held a meeting with 30 scholars and elites of the Arab World at his residence here Wednesday morning. The Iranian President is in Kuwait to attend the first summit of the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). The ACD is a body created in 2002 to promote Asian cooperation at a continental level and to help integrate separate regional cooperation organizations such as ASEAN, SAARC and the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council. A number of scholars from various Islamic sects as well as economic, political and legal Muslim and non-Muslim experts were present in the meeting. President Ahmadinejad arrived in Kuwait from Azerbaijan where he attended the 12th Summit of the Economic Cooperation Organization on October 16./end