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Friday
January 5, 2001
Chinese vice president arrives in Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 5 (AFP) - Chinese Vice President Hu Jintao arived in Iran
Friday on the first stage of a five-country tour that will also take him
to Syria, Jordan, Cyprus and Uganda, state television reported. Greeted
at Tehran airport by his Iranian counterpart Hassan Habibi and other officials,
Hu told journalists his visit concerned bilateral relations and regional
and international matters >>>
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* Chinese vice president arrives in Iran
* Saudi Arabia says Iran boycott reports baseless
* Kuwait denies diplomat held in Iran New Year raids
* Khamenei calls on students to be tolerant
* Iran says security pact with Saudi ready to be signed
* Khatami sure to run for re-election: minister
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Thursday
January 4, 2001
Saudi Arabia says Iran boycott reports baseless
DUBAI, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has dismissed newspaper reports
quoting an unnamed Saudi official as saying Gulf Arab states might boycott
Iran over its territorial dispute with the United Arab Emirates. A Saudi
Foreign Ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency late
on Wednesday said the reports carried by the UAE's Gulf News and al-Ittihad
dailies on Tuesday were "baseless and categorically untrue."
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Kuwait denies diplomat held in Iran New Year raids
KUWAIT, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Kuwait has denied that one of its diplomats
in Tehran was among more than 250 people arrested in a crackdown on New
Year's Eve celebrations, al-Watan newspaper reported on Thursday. "The
Ministry of Foreign Affairs denies the arrest, especially since it had
not received any information regarding the issue from Tehran," the
newspaper quoted Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Suleiman Shaheen
as saying >>>
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Wednesday
January 3, 2001
Khamenei calls on students to be tolerant
TEHRAN, Jan 3 (AFP) - Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on
different student groups Tuesday "to tolerate each other and avoid
tensions" in the universities, television announced. Khamenei who
met representatives of the Islamic Association of Universities, the Office
to Consolidate Unity (OCU), and other student movements in Tehran, urged
the students "to contribute to achieving religious democracy"
in Iran >>>
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Tuesday
January 2, 2001
Iran says security pact with Saudi ready to be signed
TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AFP) - Iran and Saudi Arabia have ironed out the details
for an historic security agreement as the two nations work toward moving
on from their past difficulties, Tehran's interior minister, Abdol-Vahed
Mussavi-Lari, said Tuesday. "The text of the agreement has been finalised
by experts on both sides and will be signed during a visit by Saudi Interior
Minister Nayef bin Abdel-Aziz," Mussavi-Lari told reporters >>> FULL TEXT
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Khatami sure to run for re-election: minister
TEHRAN, Jan 2 (AFP) - President Mohammad Khatami is certain to run for
re-election in June because he is determined to keep fighting for his reform
programme, his interior minister and close ally said on Tuesday. "There's
no doubt that he will stand in the elections, so I can tell you: Khatami
will certainly be a candidate," Abdol-Vahed Mussavi-Lari told a Tehran
press conference >>>
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