Mottaki to visit Saudi Arabia

Riyadh, June 6, IRNA – An informed source said that Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to visit Saudi Arabia on Sunday.

In his one-day visit, Mottaki and accompanying delegation are to attend Executive Committee meeting of Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC).

The committee is to hold meeting in the port city of Jeddah, west of Saudi Arabia, to consider recent Zionist regime crimes against passengers of Freedom Flotilla, which was carrying humanitarian aids for residents of Gaza and was brutally attacked by the Zionist army.

The OIC is to consider ways of confronting with such barbaric crimes by the Zionist eegime.

In the latest crime of the Zionist regime, more than 20 people were killed and many were wounded in the attack on Freedom flotilla.

In spite of US government support for the Zionist regime, the action was strongly condemned world wide.

Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, Senegal, Palestine, Malaysia and Kazakhstan are members of OIC Executive Committee. The OIC has 57 member states./end