IRAN-INDIA 2 LST

The External Affairs Minister was assisted by Indian
Ambassador to Iran Sanjay Singh, Joint Secretary (Pakistan,
Afghanistan, Iran) in the Foreign Office Yash Sinha and other
officials, while the Iranian team, comprised Deputy Foreign
Minister Mohammad Ali Fathollahi and Director General of Asian
Affiars among others.
Krishna had on Monday met his counterpart Manouchehr
Mottaki and discussed bilateral relations and trade ties.
After the meeting, IRNA reported Mottaki as saying in
meeting with his Indian counterpart that "after the end of the
cold war era the regional groups spent a hag period of
relative stagnation for some 15 years".
"Some people had at that time assumed that
unilateralism would replaced the former bipolar world order,"
IRNA quoted Mottaki, who was not present that the meeting
Tuesday, as saying.
"India can as an influential country play a very
decisive role in the region," he said. PTI