Iran's Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Shamseddin Hosseini welcomes Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who has arrived in Tehran to attend the 16th Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit.
The Indian premier, accompanied with a 150-member delegation, is scheduled to meet with the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei on the sidelines of the summit.
More than 100 countries are partaking in the NAM meeting which kicked off at the expert level in Tehran on Sunday.
At the opening ceremony of the NAM expert-level meeting, Iran assumed the rotating presidency of the movement for three years. Egypt's Ambassador to the United Nations Mootaz Khalil formally handed over the presidency to Iran.
The two-day foreign ministerial meeting of the NAM summit has begun and is currently underway in the Iranian capital.
The meeting of the heads of states will open on Thursday with an inaugural speech by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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