Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif is expected to arrive in Beirut next week for talks with senior Lebanese officials on the bilateral relations between the two countries, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi said that the arrangements for the visit are currently being prepared. He said: “Due to the relationship between Iran and Lebanon, and the role that the country plays in the region’s security and stability, there are talks in progress between the two sides.”
He added: “Zarif will meet with a number of high-level officials in the Lebanese government and will discuss the relations between the two sides and ways of developing them in the political, economic and cultural levels, especially after the changes that Lebanon witnessed recently. And he will discuss the situation and the changes in the region and the events in Syria, in addition to the mechanisms of international cooperation between Iran and Lebanon.
