Iran’s SNSC Deputy Secretary Arrives In Beijing

Beijing, Jan 21, IRNA – Deputy secretary for the foreign policy and international affairs of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Baqeri arrived here in the Chinese capital on Friday evening local time. Baqeri will meet with a group of Chinese university professors, scholars, and lawmakers at the venue of Iranian Embassy in Beijing on Friday night. The Iranian diplomat visited Moscow before departing for China. He met with Russian officials, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and discussed the resumption of talks between Iran and the 5+1 Group. Iran and the 5+1 Group (Britain, China, France, Russia, and the United States plus Germany) held two rounds of multifaceted talks in Geneva in December 2010 and in the Turkish city of Istanbul last January./end