Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is to leave Tehran for Kuwait on Saturday, the Foreign Ministry’s spokesman announced.
As Reported by Qods News Agency (Qodsna) During the one-day trip, the foreign minister will meet his Kuwaiti counterpart and other top officials to discuss bilateral issues and regional developments,” Abbas Mousavi told IRNA on Friday.
Zarif is also expected to visit Finland on Monday, according to Finland Today.
He will have meetings with President Sauli Niinisto and Finnish ministers, including Ville Skinnari, minister for development cooperation and foreign trade, and Pekka Haavisto, minister for foreign affairs, who will host Zarif in Finland.
Discussion topics in the meetings will include bilateral relations, international and regional issues, topics related to human rights and Finland’s presidency of the Council of the European Union.
“I am looking forward to the discussion with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Tensions in the Persian Gulf have an impact on the entire world. The importance of maintaining a dialogue is emphasized in this situation,” Haavisto said in a statement.
Zarif will continue his trip from Finland to Sweden and Norway.
A high-ranking Yemeni official says delegates from the Houthi Ansarullah movement agreed to sit at the negotiating table with representatives loyal to former Yemeni president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi during the latest round of UN-sponsored peace negotiations in Sweden, and struck a peace deal only because of the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the crisis-hit Arab country.
A high-ranking member of the Yemeni Houthi Ansarullah movement has accused the United Arab Emirates (UAE) of attempts to scupper agreements recently reached between warring sides during the latest round of UN-sponsored peace negotiations in Sweden.
Yemen’s popular Houthi Ansarullah movement, which has been defending the nation against a Saudi Arabian-led war, says it is halting its counterstrikes as a goodwill measure to speed up “peace” process.
The UN envoy for Yemen Martin Griffiths says the warring sides in Yemen are close to a deal on exchanging prisoners as a confidence-building measure ahead of the upcoming peace talks in Sweden, which both sides have promised to attend.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened Iran on Friday, telling CNN that Washington will take direct action against Tehran if U.S. interests came under attack in the Middle East.
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