Czech Ready to Expand Relations with Iran

Foreign Minister of the Czech Republic Karel Schwarzenberg voiced his country’s preparedness to develop ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Schwarzenberg made the remarks in a meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki in a meeting on the sidelines of the 62nd annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

During the meeting, the Czech official said that his country’s ambassador to Tehran is seriously pursuing the expansion of the two states’ bilateral relations, and called for continued exchange of views by the two countries to solve partial problems and remove possible impediments to the two nations’ relations.

The Iranian minister, for his part, voiced Tehran’s readiness to use the two countries’ potentials to further expand ties, and described regional and international cooperation as a back-up for the expansion of mutual relations.