Turkish and Iranian foreign ministers meet

TEHRAN (A.A) – July 11, 2011 – Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in Tehran on Sunday.
Holding a joint press conference after his meeting with Salehi, Davutoglu said that they discussed regional issues, adding, "our region is experiencing a very important historical transformation process."
Noting that all countries in the region should exert efforts to restore a more prosperous, peaceful and stable structure in this transformation process, Davutoglu said that peoples in many countries in the region had right and legitimate demands.
These demands should be turned into a reform process through peaceful methods, he added.
Davutoglu also said that Turkey was against every type of external intervention in the region.
On the other hand, the Iranian minister said that Turkey and Iran had rooted relations, adding that the trade volume between the two countries was expected to reach 14 billion USD this year. He expressed hope that the annual trade volume would reach 30 billion USD within the next few years.
Noting that they discussed recent developments in Syria during their meeting, Salehi said that Turkey, Iran and Syria were members of a family, and if a problem appeared in one of them, they all should launch initiatives to solve it.
Salehi said that it was important to meet the demands of the people, adding that developments in the region affected the whole world.