IRNA -- Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Sunday conferred with his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias on expansion of mutual relations and cooperation. Setting up 'Assembly of Ancient Civilizations in Athens' will prepare grounds for the expansion of cooperation and contribution among participating countries, Zarif said. During the meeting,...

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IRNA The Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday that 10 countries, including Iran, are going to attend a conference on the role of big cultures in creating world peace. The foreign minister of Greece told reporters that 10 big ancient countries that have been influential on human culture are meeting in Athens on the coming Sunday and ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani called on the European Union to stop dithering over combatting terrorism, recommending the bloc to make one final decision to stop financing terrorist groups in the Middle East. The European Union has to make the problem clear for itself, defining what it really wants to do and what decision ...

Greece owes Iran $800 million in an outstanding debt for the oil which it hasbought before 2012, Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh says. Zangeneh discussed on Monday payment of the debt with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias who is visiting Iran at the head of a business delegation to explore potentials for fresh trade. The two sides agreed ...

Tehran, Nov. 29, IRNA Visiting Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said here on Sunday that the Middle East is in dire need of peace. He made the remarks on the sidelines of a ceremony in the Tehran University. Kotzias said guns should be silenced and diplomacy should start working. He added shooting down the Russian warplane would not help ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias would visit Iran on Saturday. He is officially invited by his Iranian counterpart Mohammad-Javad Zarif. His trip is a follow up to Zarifs travel to Greece on May 28. The two sides plan to discuss issues of mutual interests as well as expanding economic cooperation. Greece was one of Iranian ...

TEHRAN (ISNA)- Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras would visit Iran, Kotzias said in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif in New York as they discussed ways to expand bilateral ties. Kotzias offered condolences to Iran over Iranian pilgrims killed in Mina deadly crush. Zarif, for his ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iranian and Greek foreign ministers in a meeting in Athens stressed the need for expansion of economic relations between the two countries by stimulating bilateral trade in diverse fields. During the Thursday meeting, Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias discussed the ways to forge ...

Tehran, May 28, IRNA Ministers of foreign affairs of Iran and Greece, in a meeting in Athens on Thursday, conferred on the spread of terrorism across the world, calling for collective efforts of all governments to counter terrorism and extremism. During the meeting, the visiting Iranian foreign minister said that economic relations between Iran ...