New FM: Iran will properly confront enemies' soft war
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Tehran, Jan 30, IRNA -- Iran’s new Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi said Sunday that his ministry would mobilize all its potentials to properly confront enemies’ soft war against the country.
He made the remarks in an address to the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) after winning a vote of confidence from the Iranian MPs earlier in the day.
Out of the 243 Iranian parliamentarians present in the voting, some 146 MPs voted in favor of Salehi while 60 rejected him and 35 others abstained.
Salehi was proposed to Majlis by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who attended Majlis Sunday session earlier in the day to outline Salehi's good characteristics to serve as the country's new foreign minister.
Addressing Iranian MPs after his vote of confidence, Salehi stressed that Asia was one of the major priorities in Iran’s foreign policy.
He said that countries of the ancient continent could make an effective cooperation relying on their common points and interests in the field of trade, industrial, cultural, technological, banking and tourism activities.
Salehi predicted that regional states could form a “powerful bloc” at the international scene by promoting bilateral and multilateral cooperation.
The new Iranian foreign minister also reiterated that the government of President Ahmadinejad gave a special importance to enhancing and institutionalizing bilateral relations with Asian states and make an 'inter-continental convergence in line with the government’s Eastern-oriented policy.”
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