IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman said that Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will depart for Germany on Friday to attend the 53rd Munich Security Conference which is to be held within coming days. Bahram Qasemi said that Zarif is scheduled to address the conference. He is also exchange views with presidents and foreign ministers of many participating ...

US President Barack Obama and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to cooperate to implement the Syria agreement reached during talks in Munich, Germany, the Kremlin says. The Kremlin issued a statement on Sunday after the two presidents talked over the phone on ways to intensify diplomatic and other types of efforts to put the deal ...

Munich, Feb 13, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed issues of mutual interests with counterparts from different countries here on Saturday. He met with President of Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov, Romanian Foreign Minister Carmen Liliana Burlacu, Foreign Minister of Belarus Vladimir Makei and Foreign Minister of Norway Borge Brende....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says the Syrian people must decide about the future of President Bashar al-Assad. Zarif made the remarks on Saturday while speaking to reporters in the German city of Munich in response to earlier comments by US Secretary of State John Kerry and Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir about Assads ...

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Tehran, Feb 13, IRAN - Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Saturday that Munich talks on Syrian are now proceeding and it is expected to bear fruits to the benefit of the Syrian people. According to the Public Relations Department of the Expediency Council, Rafsanjani referred to the preliminary talks in ...

Munich, Feb 13, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his American counterpart John Kerry in a meeting here on Saturday discussed ways to implement Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). According to an informed source, the two sides met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC) where they discussed details and implementation ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iran newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Abrar: 1. Global accord to end Syrian clashes 2. Iran FM meets with Secretary General of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Iyad Ameen Madani in Munich 3....

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said at the Munich Security Conference on Friday that she would be glad to visit Iran in spring 2016. MUNICH (Sputnik) According to Mogherini, during the visit she will be accompanied by the delegation of European Commission members for discussion of the bilateral EU-Iran relations, which have new perspectives ...

Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said that Tehran and Washington must make efforts to overcome the wall of distrust that separated Iran and the United States for 40 years. MUNICH (Sputnik) Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif highlighted on Friday the possibility of restoring normal relations between Tehran and Washington if both sides showed ...

Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stresses the importance of pursuing a political solution to the Syriacrisis, warning against entertainingillusions about the situation in theArab country, Press TV reports. Zarif made the remarks in response to a question from PressTV correspondent on Friday about Irans stance on the Saudi offer to ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif voiced the countrys readiness to cooperate with Saudi Arabia on the settlement of the regional problems, saying that Tehran and Riyadh cannot ignore each other in the region. "We are prepared to work with Saudi Arabia... Iran and Saudi Arabia have common interests in Syria, and Tehran ...

The Russian and Iranian foreign ministers accorded to further stregthen bilateral collaboration in favor of stability and security in the Middle East, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Friday. MOSCOW (Sputnik) The Russian and Iranian foreign minsters agreed to further enhance bilateral cooperation to secure stability and security ...

Munich, Feb 12, IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif met IAEA Director General Yukia Amano on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference here on Friday. He also held a meeting with heads of Europe's major trade, banking, industrial and economic institutions in which expansion of relations following removal of sanctions was reiterated....

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says a zero-sum perspective on regional issues will result in total loss. Zarif made the remarks duringa speech at the 52nd Munich Security Conference (MSC) held to discussongoing crises and future challenges to international security. Following a marathon meeting in Munich aimed at resurrecting ...

MUNICH, February 12. /TASS/. China hopes Iran will be playing an active and constructive role in the settlement of the Syrian crisis, Chinas Foreign Minister Wang Yi said during a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif. "All parties should abandon military methods in order to settle the Syrian issue by political means," he said,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Representatives of 17 countries will meet in Geneva Friday afternoon for United Nations-hosted talks on how to ensure humanitarian access in war-ravaged Syria, a UN spokeswoman said. "The humanitarian group will meet today at 4:00 pm (1500 GMT)," Khawla Mattar, a spokeswoman for UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura, told AFP in an ...

A senior Iranian official says an agreement reached following marathon talks in Munich on nationwide ceasefire in Syria does not include areas held by terrorist groups. Irans Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on Friday on the sidelines of a meeting of the International Syria Support Group ...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said that Iran and Saudi Arabia bear a broader responsibility for the stability of the Middle East. MOSCOW (Sputnik) Riyadh and Tehran must shoulder responsibility for stability in the Middle East and put aside their differences to settle the crisis in Syria, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier ...

According to US Secretary of State John Kerry, leaders have reached a ceasefire agreement that could be implemented within days. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stressed that the main result of meeting in Munich was a confirmation of the UN resolution on Syria. Lavrov also said that Russia expressed its concern that the Syrian opposition ...