Publish Date: 15 July 2012 - 23:35

Iran attends African Union summit in Ethiopia

The director of the Foreign Ministry Department for African Affairs, Valiollah Mohammad-Nasrabadi, has attended the 19th African Union (AU) Summit in Addis Ababa which opened on Sunday, Iranian Ambassador to Ethiopia Ali Bahreini said on Sunday.

Bahreini said that Mohammad-Nasrabadi is scheduled to submit President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s invitation letters to the leaders of a number of African countries to attend the XVI Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement which is scheduled to be held in Tehran from August 26 to 31.

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