MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif held separate meetings with his Chinese, Indonesian, Australian and New Zealander counterparts in Singapore. Zarif who is attending 51st session of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore held separate meetings on Friday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Australian Minister ...

The Sydney Morning Herald - Foreign Affairs Minister Julie Bishop has said there is a "powerful argument" that US President Donald Trump's threat to scrap the Iran nuclear deal could imperil efforts to negotiate a peaceful outcome with North Korea. In a significant sharpening of Australia's public rhetoric on the Obama-era Iran agreement, Ms Bishop ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif met Canadian, Australian and Chinese counterparts on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Thursday. Zarif, who is on the fifth day of his visit to New York to attend the 72nd UN General Assembly meeting, held talks with Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Australian ...

IRNA Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop announced Thursday that her country is eager to continue cooperation with Iran to repel common global and regional challenges. Bishop made the announcement through a message in which she also extended congratulations to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for his reelection as president on May ...

IRNA Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia-Pacific Affairs Ibrahim Rahimpour met separately with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop and Deputy Foreign Minister Ric Wells in Canberra on Monday. Iran's Ambassador to Australia Abdol Hossein Vahhaji accompanied Rahimpour in both meetings. Rahimpour told IRNA on Monday that in meeting with Foreign ...

Kuala Lumpur, June 7, IRNA Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced on Tuesday that autonomous sanctions imposed on ten Iranian designations of individuals and entities are likely to be removed. Members of the public are invited to comment on a statutory review of Australias listings of ten persons and entities designated ...

Vienna, May 17, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishop here on Monday evening. The two sides discussed issues of mutual interest during the meeting. Zarif is currently in Vienna along with a number of the managers and deputies of Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend a two-day international ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Australias foreign minister appointed Ian Biggs, a senior career officer at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, as the countrys new ambassador to Iran. In a media release on her website, Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop announced the appointment of Mr. Biggs as the next ambassador to Tehran. Australia values ...

Kuala Lumpur, May 7, IRNA - Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop said that Australia values its longstanding relationship with Iran. Bishop announced in Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Website on Saturday that Ian Biggs has been appointed as Australia's next Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran....

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CANBERRA, Mar. 15 (MNA) In a Mon. presser with Australian FM Julie Bishop in Canberra, Javad Zarif deemed the two sides talks constructive, saying new possibilities have opened up in the two countries bilateral relations. Following a meeting and a luncheon with Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop in Canberra on Monday, Iranian FM Mohammad ...

Kuala Lumpur, March 15, IRNA The Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has called for rekindling Canberra-Tehran relations. She has made the remark during a reception held for her Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif who arrived in the Australian capital on Monday. The Australian media as well as press across Asia have given wide coverage ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifhas called forboosting bilateral cooperation with Australia in the battle against terrorism and extremism. The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks during a joint press conference with his Australian counterpart Julie Bishopat the Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday. We share the view that Daesh ...

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australia hopes to send thousands of Iranian asylum seekers back to their homeland under a new deal with Tehran, Australian officials said Wednesday. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's negotiations with her Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif were well advanced on a deal expected to be signed next week that would lift Tehran's ...

Tehran, Jan 17, IRNA Foreign Minister of Australia Julie Bishop has said that Sydney would lift its sanctions against Iran within days. I welcome todays announcement that Iran has met its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear deal, said the Australian minister in a statement appeared on the countrys Foreign Ministry official ...

Australias foreign minister has called for a political solution to the foreign-backed militancy in Syria, stressing the need for a national unity government involving Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In an interview with English-language broadsheet newspaper The Australian published on Saturday, Julie Bishop said there is an emerging consensus ...

Agricultural goods constitute the vast bulk of Australias exports to Iran, and Aussie Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says there is scope to widen that trade after western sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear energy program are lifted as part of a nuclear deal reached between Iran and world powers on July 14, Australian Broadcasting Corporation ...

Kuala Lumpur, Aug 7, IRNA Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said on Friday that removal of sanctions following the nuclear deal between Iran and the 5+1 will prepare the ground for boosting mutual ties. Responding to IRNA correspondent's question about future of ties after Foreign Ministers Meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Nations ...

Kuala Lumpur, June 22, IRNA Australian foreign minister said in Canberra on Monday that Australian government ruled out refugee status of Iranians calling them economic migrants saying they will be repatriated as per an agreement with Iranian government. Julie Bishop made the remarks in a statement to the Australian Parliament. She confirmed ...

IRANIANS held in Australian immigration detention could be returned under a deal being negotiated between the two countries. FOREIGN Minister Julie Bishop and Immigration Minister Peter Dutton met with an Iranian delegation, led by director-general for consular affairs Ali Chegeni, in Canberra this week. The two countries are working on a memorandum ...