29 Mar 2024
Monday 6 January 2014 - 13:11
Story Code : 75766

Jack Straw would not meet Rouhani, Larijani

TEHRAN, Jan. 6 (MNA) A member of Parliament board has said British parliamentary delegation will visit Iran in their own request.



Shahin Mohammad Sadeghi said that Jack Straw, Labor MP and former Foreign Minister would lead the British parliamentary delegation. The delegation would have meetings according to a timeframe set by Irans Parliament, and Mr. Straw will not have a meeting with Larijani, he added.

The Parliament Board has discussed the issue of the delegations visits, he said, and that diplomatic exchanges and dynamism is crucial to improvement of the Parliaments capacities in keeping contacts with the world and grasping the opportunity to represent our capabilities to the world.

He believed however officials would be cautious enough to avoid the side-effects of the British parliamentary visit. In a diplomatic framework, the British parliamentary delegation was granted a visit to Iran. All their meeting timetables should abidie the Parliaments frameworks so that the antics of EU parliamentary delegation are not repeated, he said.

Asked whether Mr. Jack Straw would meet Larijani the parliament speaker, he told that no such a meeting was scheduled for him. Mehr News Parliament correspondent had it that the British delegation would have meetings with Shafei , the head of Irans Chamber of Commerce, ministry of industries, mines and trade, Alaedin Boroujerdi, head of Parliament National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, and Abbasali Mansouri Arani, the head of Iran-Britain parliamentary friendship committee.

Visits to historical buildings, museums, and monuments are also in the agenda for the delegation. According to attempts by Mehr News to reach the presidents office, Rouhani has denied a visit to British parliamentary meeting. An informed source in the government told Mehr News no meeting had been scheduled for Jack Straw with Rouhani.

The British parliamentary group will arrive in Tehran tomorrow Tuesday.

By Mehr News Agency

 

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