NHK: Japan FM to Visit Iran in Mid-August

Date: 07 July 2021 - 21:49

News ID: ۹۲۲۰۲

TOKYO (Dispatches) -- Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan Motegi Toshimitsu will visit Tehran next month to hold meetings with the new Iranian administration’s senior officials, public broadcaster NHK reported on Wednesday.
Motegi will visit Iran in mid-August to meet Iran’s next foreign minister and other officials of President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi’s administration and call on Iran to “play a constructive role” in the efforts to ease tensions and bring stability to the Middle East, it said. He is also expected to convey Japan’s willingness to strengthen its traditional friendship with Iran.