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Foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Iran-Algeria cultural
ties is a strong support for the two countries' mutual relations.
Algerian Culture Minister Khalida Toumi Masoudi, who is visiting
Tehran to attend Algeria cultural week ceremony here, conferred
with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki on Saturday.
According to Foreign Ministry Media Department, Mottaki
by expressing pleasure over holding Algerian cultural week in
Tehran welcomed establishment of ties between Iranian and
Algerian scientists, academics and religious elites.
He expressed Tehran's readiness for expansion of economic ties
with Algiers and said, "There are good potentials for expanding
ties between the two countries especially in the fields of trade,
industry, engineering and technology."
The Algerian minister, for her part, called Iran-Algeria ties very
good and said, "Algerian people have a friendly attitude towards
Iranians."
He added, "President Bouteflika, himself, has a special respect for
the Iranian nation."
Expressing her country's readiness to expand cultural and economic
ties, the visiting minister reminded the successful holding of Iran's
cultural week in Algeria and hoped that the Algerian cultural week
can be held successfully, too.
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