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Meira Kumar, Iranian President Ahmadinejad
agree to bolster ties
Saturday November 05, 2011 09:58:04 PM,
IANS
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Lok Sabha speaker to to visit Iran
Lok Sabha
speaker Meira Kumar will be visiting Iran in the first week of
November, an official said Sunday.
In a visit which is expected to boost bilateral ties, the speaker
will be attending several cultural and education programmes in
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New Delhi:
In a sign of upswing in India-Iran relations, Lok Sabha Speaker
Saturday met Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran and
agreed to bolster bilateral ties in diverse fields.
Meira Kumar is currently leading an Indian parliamentary
delegation to Iran.
"Both sides agreed on the need to further strengthen the bilateral
relations in various fields including political, economic and
cultural fields," said a statement from the speaker's office.
Meira Kumar also held talks with her Iranian counterpart Ali
Larijani, and members of the India-Iran Parliamentary Friendship
Group.
The speaker's visit to Iran came weeks after Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh met Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of the UN General
Assembly in New York in September and accepted an invitation from
him to visit Tehran.
The meeting underlined a warming of ties between New Delhi and
Tehran that showed signs of drift after India voted against the
Iranian nuclear programme, suspected of developing atomic weapons,
at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) three times
between 2005 and 2009.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee was the last Indian prime minister to visit
Iran in 2001.
Meira Kumar unveiled a plaque at the Majlis premises commemorating
the visit of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore to Tehran in 1932.
Another highlight of the speaker's trip to Iran was unveiling of
the statue of iconic Indian scientist Acharya Jagdish Chandra Bose
at the Pardis Technology Park in Tehran.
Lauding Iran for its progress in research and technology, Meira
Kumar said the unveiling of the statue of Acharya Bose would
herald "a new beginning of scientific engagement between the two
countries".
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