Economic Affairs and Finance Minister Davoud Danesh Jafari and Central Bank Governor Tahmasb Mazaheri left Tehran for Washington last week to attend a joint meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB).

French ambassador to Iran stressed that cultural cooperation between Tehran and Paris would secure expansion of the two countries’ ties in future.

Iranian, Afghan and Pakistani foreign ministers in a statement issued at the end of a trilateral meeting in the western city of Herat on Friday stressed the need for the establishment of security and stability in Afghanistan.