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  • French FM Calls For Stronger Ties Between Tehran and Paris

    07/29/2002 7:43:13 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 7 replies · 249+ views
    Tehran Times ^ | July 29 2002
    PARIS -- French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin met Iranian Ambassador to France, Alireza Moayeri, on Friday and maintained the need to continue exchange of delegations between Paris and Tehran. Villepin, expressing satisfaction with the upward trend of Paris-Tehran ties, said he hoped he would be able to travel to Iran in the near future, IRNA reported. "Paris, a major member of the European Union, is seriously pursuing enhancement of cooperation between the union and Iran," he said. Moayeri, in response, said that Iran welcomes further exchanges of delegations between the two countries, particularly consultations between their foreign ministers. The...
  • Baghdad accuses Tehran of "cease-fire violations"

    06/29/2002 3:30:18 PM PDT · by knighthawk · 6 replies · 203+ views
    Iran Mania ^ | June 28 2002
    BAGHDAD, June 28 (AFP) - Iraq has complained to the United Nations about recurrent Iranian "violations" of the 1988 cease-fire that ended an eight-year war between the two neighbors, the official INA news agency reported Friday. "Iran violated the cease-fire 41 times between the beginning of February and May 15," Iraq's UN representative Mohammad al-Duri said in a letter to Secretary General Kofi Annan. The violations included "numerous overflights of Iraqi positions by Iranian planes and helicopters ... and firing by Iranian troops (at Iraqi territory) that left a number of Iraqi citizens wounded," Duri wrote. Although Baghdad and Tehran...