From ISNA
Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has met with Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi in Tunis.
Zarif met Essebsi on Monday, after being officially received at the airport in Tunis by his Tunisian counterpart Khemaies Jhinaoui.
At the session with the Tunisian president, Zarif highlighted that Iran assumes no limit on ties with Tunisia as great potentials exist for reinvigoration of bilateral cooperation.
“Both countries possess large capacities for deepening ties and Iran is willing to exchange experiences in various sectors,” he went on to say.
The senior Iranian diplomat also voiced gratitude towards hospitality of government and people of Tunisia and conveyed greetings of the Iranian President to his Tunisian counterpart.
Essebsi, for his part, expressed sympathies towards victims of the two terrorist attacks in the Iranian capital of Tehran.
He described Iran as a civilized country concluding that his country was ready to bolster relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
At a separate meeting, Tunisia’s FM welcome Mohammad Javad Zarif and expressed his country’s eagerness to develop relations with Iran is all arenas and voiced optimism that a joint commission will be formed between the two sides in early 2018.
Zarif, for his part, said no limits exist to development of ties between the two countries and suggested that a mechanism be shaped for regular diplomatic negotiations between Tehran and Tunis.
Other issued raised at the joint meeting between Iranian and Tunisian FMs included holding of Tunisia’s Cultural Week in Tehran, deployment of Tunisian trade delegation to Iran as well as regional issues.
He arrived in Tunisia earlier in the day in the final stage of a tour of North African countries. Before that, he traveled to Mauritania and Algeria, where he met with official and dignitaries.
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