(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Libyan Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saad al-Shalmani stressed Iran's important role in the region and the world, and said Tripoli is eagerly striving to improve relations with Tehran.
"Iran is a great and important Islamic country and Libya tries to establish normal and serious relations with Iran like other Arab and Muslim states," Shalmani said in an interview with the Iran-based Arabic al-Alam news channel on the sidelines of the ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran on Tuesday.
"We don't have any problem with Iran and we hope that the (bilateral) ties will develop," he added.
Earlier on Tuesday, Libyan Deputy Ambassador to the UN Ibrahim Omar Al Dabashi also underlined Iran's important role in the world, and said that Iran's presidency over the NAM will reinvigorate the efforts made by the bloc for the promotion of freedom and democracy in the world.
"The Islamic Republic of Iran is an important country and a very significant actor among the NAM members," said Dabashi.
"Certainly, Iran's rotating presidency (over the NAM) during the next three years will reinvigorate the Movement's stances in the international arena and will materialize the NAM nations' expectations for the promotion and spread of freedom and democracy," he added.
Iran on Tuesday assumed the rotating presidency of the NAM foreign ministers as the NAM ministers officially started a two-day meeting here in Tehran this morning.
Over 150 world states and global bodies have sent their representatives to the NAM meeting in Tehran.
The Non-Aligned Movement is a Cold War organization that intends to provide a forum for countries that were not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union. But from its origins in the 1950s there were members that did not fit that description, and since the Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991 the group has struggled for both identity and clout.
Now, its system of rotating leadership has put it back in the spotlight, as its summit is set for Tehran at a time of the western sanctions against Iran due to its peaceful nuclear program.
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29 August 2012 - 07:12
News ID: 341219
Libyan Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saad al-Shalmani stressed Iran's important role in the region and the world, and said Tripoli is eagerly striving to improve relations with Tehran.
