Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is due to Leave Tehran for Herat, Afghanistan late this week to attend the 17th ministerial meeting of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO).

Vice-Speaker of the Iranian parliament Mohammad Reza Bahonar said the second summit of the heads of Caspian Sea littoral states in Tehran indicated success of Iran’s strategy for sparking regional and international convergence through dialogue and understanding.

Iran on Wednesday assured of its continued efforts to set a kidnapped Japanese student free, but meantime, called on Tokyo to refrain from direct intervention in the case