Ahmadinejad to attend counter-terrorism conference in Baghdad

TEHRAN,Oct.22(MNA) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to visit Baghdad in the next few days to attend the Second International Conference on Global Fight against Terrorism. Ahmadinejad will hold meetings with a number of senior Iraqi officials, including Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, on the sidelines of the conference. The First International Conference on Global Fight against Terrorism was held in Tehran from June 25 to 26 in 2011. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Iraqi President Jalal Talebani Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, and representatives from about sixty other countries attended the event in Tehran.