Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met with his Kyrgyz and Tajik counterparts on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Kyrgyz capital city of Bishkek on Thursday.

Two Belgian tourists missing for days after a kidnapping in the southeastern Iran are free and in good health, Belgium’s foreign ministry said.

Iranian president in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Bishkek on Thursday stressed the two countries’ vast common grounds for mutual cooperation, reiterating that Tehran-Beijing relations would never be influenced by the pressures exerted by other countries.