Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN (FNA)- Assets of the Baku branch of Bank Melli Iran (BMI) stood at AZN 20.7 million on July 1, up 15% from a year earlier.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Persian Gulf Cooperation Council (PGCC) Secretary General Abdulrahman bin Hamad al-Attiyah praised the visit to Iran by Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani and his talks with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian customs announced that the slab has become the second largest imported product of the country.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Turkish energy minister Hilmi Guler met with the Iranian ambassador to Ankara Thursday evening to iron out serious problems that have developed over the long-mooted wide-ranging gas deal between the two countries, a Turkish official said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian border security guards on Friday evening arrested 21 Pakistanis on the two countries’ border and handed them over to Taftan police.

TEHRAN (FNA)- The XV Ministerial Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran on 27-30 July 2008 issued a statement in support of Iran’s nuclear program, which was later circulated by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

TEHRAN (FNA)- The international tender for Iran’s third cell phone operator will be published in newspapers by the next two days, an Iranian minister said.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s Charge d’affaires in Lebanon conferred with Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh on Friday.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran is in talks with two major Asian oil companies regarding the development of the South Caspian Sea region, the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – All Russia’s military activities in Georgia meet the conditions of a French-brokered six point ceasefire deal which ended clashes over South Ossetia, a senior Russian general said on Saturday.