BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

20/05/2007

Iran President Ahmadinejad to visit Belarus

LONDON, May 20 (IranMania) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a two-day visit to Belarus starting Monday, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.

Andrei Popov also told journalists that ?a wide range of questions relating to bilateral cooperation? would be discussed but gave no details, AFP reported.

The visit comes after Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko held talks with the Iranian leadership in Tehran last November in which he offered support for Iran?s contested nuclear program.

Both governments have been the target of sharp criticism by the West: Iran over suspicions about its nuclear program, Belarus over human rights abuses. Belarus has also sold Russian-made conventional military equipment and spare parts to Iran in the face of Western criticism.

The two countries? defense ministers signed a cooperation agreement in Tehran in January.

Source:

http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=51724&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs

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