Iran: President of Parliament to visit Latin America
Tehran, Feb.13 (AKI) – Gholam Ali Haddad Adel, the president of the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, who is related by marriage to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the spiritual leader of the Islamic republic, will meet on Monday with the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chaves. Haddad Adel arrived in Caracas on Sunday night with a delegation including agriculture minister Mohammad Reza Eskandari and industry minister Ali Reza Tahmasebi. After the visit to Venezuela, Iran's main ally in Latin America and within Opec, the Iranian delegation is set to travel to Cuba, Brazil and Uruguay.
In his first foreign visit as Iran's newly elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had visited Cuba and Venezuela before heading to the United States for a UN summit in September last year. Ahmadinejad met with Venezuelan president Chavez and the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Before leaving Tehran, the parliament's president explained to the press the objectives of his mission to Latin America.
"First of all, we believe we should thank Cuba and Venezuela for their vote against the European motion at the last summit of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA)," said Haddad Adel. At the meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, the motion supporting the referral of Iran to the UN's Security Council was approved with 27 votes against 3 and five abstentions. Only Cuba, Venezuela and Syria voted against the motion in support of the Islamic republic.
"This mission will last 10 days and will pursue the objective of forging closer relations between the Islamic republic and South American countries," the parliament's president said.
"Several countries in the American continent suffer from the United States' imperialistic politics and are potential allies in the fight against the evil and domineering policies of the White House and its allies," he said.
A few weeks ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke on the phone with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, proposing to them the creation of an anti-American front and the re-launch of a Non-Aligned Movement to meet soon in the Cuban capital, Havana.
In his first foreign visit as Iran's newly elected president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had visited Cuba and Venezuela before heading to the United States for a UN summit in September last year. Ahmadinejad met with Venezuelan president Chavez and the Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
Before leaving Tehran, the parliament's president explained to the press the objectives of his mission to Latin America.
"First of all, we believe we should thank Cuba and Venezuela for their vote against the European motion at the last summit of the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA)," said Haddad Adel. At the meeting of the UN nuclear watchdog, the motion supporting the referral of Iran to the UN's Security Council was approved with 27 votes against 3 and five abstentions. Only Cuba, Venezuela and Syria voted against the motion in support of the Islamic republic.
"This mission will last 10 days and will pursue the objective of forging closer relations between the Islamic republic and South American countries," the parliament's president said.
"Several countries in the American continent suffer from the United States' imperialistic politics and are potential allies in the fight against the evil and domineering policies of the White House and its allies," he said.
A few weeks ago, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke on the phone with Cuban leader Fidel Castro and the presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia, proposing to them the creation of an anti-American front and the re-launch of a Non-Aligned Movement to meet soon in the Cuban capital, Havana.
posted by Marko at 2/13/2006 08:45:00 AM
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