Tehran, Sept 20, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani arrived in New York on Tuesday to attend the 71st UN General Assembly.

Having stepped in the John F. Kennedy Airport, the president was welcomed by Iran’s Ambassador and staff of Iran’s representative office in the United Nations.

Meetings and talks with a number of senior officials of countries, meetings with political and economic elite and meeting with religious leaders as well as speech in the UN General Assembly fall in the schedule of the president’s New York visit.

Prior to visiting New York, the president paid official visit to Cuba, where he met and conferred with his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro, Cuban revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, while attending a joint meeting with senior Iranian and Cuban officials and his Cuban counterpart. The two sides discussed ways of expanding mutual relations.

On the first leg of his tour, the president had travelled to Caracas, Venezuela, to attend the 17th NAM Summit, where he delivered a speech to outline Iran’s stances. He also met and conferred with a number of officials attending the summit.

By IRNA