29 August 2012 - 18:38

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived in the Iranian capital to take part in the 16th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.

Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has arrived in the Iranian capital to take part in the 16th Non-Aligned Movement summit in Tehran.

Zardari was welcomed by Iran's Interior Minister Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport on Wednesday.

The Pakistani president will attend the meeting of NAM heads of state that will open on Thursday with an inaugural speech by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.

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 on Sunday, 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.

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