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Mon, 09/19/2011 - 10:37
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President: Iran to Discuss Int'l Developments with Venezuela, Mauritania, Sudan
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who left Tehran a few minutes ago to attend the 66th UN General Assembly meeting in New York announced that after his US visit he plans to travel to Venezuela, Mauritania and Sudan to confer with the countries' high-ranking officials on international developments.
"We will travel to Venezuela after visiting New York and will participate in the two countries' joint cooperation commission meeting," Ahmadinejad said at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport before his departure to New York.
He described the relations between Tehran and Caracas as special, and said Iran is determined to develop more serious cooperation with Venezuela and it will obviate the obstacles on this way.
"After the trip to Venezuela, we will travel to Mauritania in response to the trip taken by the country's president to Iran and will meet with the Mauritanian president," Ahmadinejad added.
The Iranian president will then continue his tour of Africa by paying a visit to Sudan, where he and Omar al-Bashir will discuss ways to obviate obstacles on the way of their scientific and industrial cooperation.
"In all these three countries, international developments will be discussed," Ahmadinejad concluded.
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expanded Iran's cooperation with many Latin American states, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Brazil.
But, Iran has grown specially expansive ties with Venezuela, and now the two countries are considered allies in many fields and in all international bodies, specially within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which controls the world's oil lifeline.
The strong and rapidly growing ties between Iran and Venezuela have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies since Tehran and Caracas have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US.
Chavez's invitation to Ahmadinejad to pay a visit to Venezuela can push the White House leaders to further isolation in Latin America and exacerbate tensions between Caracas and Washington.
US President Barack Obama hit Venezuela's state-oil company, PDVSA, with sanctions in May for sending Iran two tankers of an oil-blending component in defiance of United States' extraterritorial laws.
"We will travel to Venezuela after visiting New York and will participate in the two countries' joint cooperation commission meeting," Ahmadinejad said at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport before his departure to New York.
He described the relations between Tehran and Caracas as special, and said Iran is determined to develop more serious cooperation with Venezuela and it will obviate the obstacles on this way.
"After the trip to Venezuela, we will travel to Mauritania in response to the trip taken by the country's president to Iran and will meet with the Mauritanian president," Ahmadinejad added.
The Iranian president will then continue his tour of Africa by paying a visit to Sudan, where he and Omar al-Bashir will discuss ways to obviate obstacles on the way of their scientific and industrial cooperation.
"In all these three countries, international developments will be discussed," Ahmadinejad concluded.
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expanded Iran's cooperation with many Latin American states, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and Brazil.
But, Iran has grown specially expansive ties with Venezuela, and now the two countries are considered allies in many fields and in all international bodies, specially within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) which controls the world's oil lifeline.
The strong and rapidly growing ties between Iran and Venezuela have raised eyebrows in the US and its western allies since Tehran and Caracas have forged an alliance against the imperialist and colonialist powers and are striving hard to reinvigorate their relations with the other independent countries which pursue a line of policy independent from the US.
Chavez's invitation to Ahmadinejad to pay a visit to Venezuela can push the White House leaders to further isolation in Latin America and exacerbate tensions between Caracas and Washington.
US President Barack Obama hit Venezuela's state-oil company, PDVSA, with sanctions in May for sending Iran two tankers of an oil-blending component in defiance of United States' extraterritorial laws.
