Iran FM to partake in IOR-ARC meeting in Yemen

SANA'A, July 08 (Saba) - Iran Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to take part in the 10th round for the Foreign
Ministers
of Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) to be held in
Sana'a on August 2 - 5.
Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi told the weekly 26 September that Foreign
Ministers of 18 countries, including the Iranian's, would join in the IOR-ARC
meeting.
The meeting will approve the IOR-ARC amended charter reviewed by an IOR-ARC
sub-committee of senior officials, al-Qirbi said, accenting that the amended
charter would enhance
the cooperation between the IOR-ARC's states.
He added that meeting's agenda comprises several issues pertaining to investment
and in-between trade, especially in areas of fishery industries and transport.
Yemen is the current president of IOR-ARC until 2011, when India will receive the
presidency.
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