Eurasia Press & News

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran will make any effort to restore security to Caucus, said Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili as meeting Armenian energy minister Armen Movsisyan. He also declared Iran following a strategic approach towards regional countries particularly Armenia will best try to resolve Armenians’ challenges.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-The caretaker of Iran’s interests section in the US, Mustafa Rahmani said on Monday that the US has not made any official request to open its interests section in Iran. According to the Iranian official, the issue was only discussed by some media few months ago but not pursued …

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad congratulated his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai and Afghan people on Afghanistan’s national day.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s foreign minister and the visiting Armenian energy minister Armen Movsisyan discussed regional topics and bilateral cooperation Sunday in Tehran. Iran and Armenia could cooperate on achieving a formula for the peace and stability of the important region of Caucus through interaction with other countries, said Manouchehr Mottaki.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran’s OPEC governor Mohammad Ali Khatibi said on Monday that any OPEC decision in September meeting should help market stability. All OPEC are producing crude oil some 32 million barrels per day but they will secure markets stability if they reduce outputs, he said.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Turkish foreign and energy ministers will have a trip to Iran within next two weeks to finalize energy agreements with Iran. Turkey’s energy minister Hilmi Guler also rejected claims saying the failure in signing the agreement was due to the US pressures to isolate Iran and declared the agreement …

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iran hopes to expand energy cooperation with the Latin American countries. Iran’s president adviser Samare Hashemi who was in Paraguay to attend in the sworn-in ceremony of its new president Fernando Lugo said Iran would widen ties with Latin American countries and would aid them with energy exploration.

TEHRAN, (ISNA)-Iranian filmmaker, Behnam Behzadi’s first flick “We Live Only Twice” is to be screened in this year’s Chicago Film Festival. The 44th round of the festival to be started on October 16 will last for 13 days in Chicago.

Russia has begun pulling its troops out of Georgia, according to its deputy chief of staff. In a daily official briefing, Col-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn said the pull-out started in accordance with a six-point ceasefire plan brokered by French President Nicolas Sarokzy.

As conflicting reports come in of the state of Russia’s troop withdrawal, Georgia President’s Mikheil Saakashvili has called for direct peace talks. In a televised address, he struck a conciliatory tone and urged the Kremlin to discuss ways to avoid “discord for future generations.”