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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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." >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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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 >>> FULL TEXT

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January 1, 2001

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