(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The Thursday meeting was held on the sidelines of the 16th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Tehran.
Ahmadinejad and Mursi discussed the Syrian conflict and their nations' diplomatic ties in their first-ever bilateral meeting, an official said.
"They emphasized the need to solve the Syrian crisis via diplomacy and prevent foreign intervention," Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian told Iran's Arabic-language news channel Al-Alam.
"They also discussed ways to boost the level of Tehran-Cairo relations," he said.
The meeting took place in Tehran on the sidelines of a summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, during which Egypt handed over the organization's rotating presidency to Iran.
Mursi's attendance was the first time a head of state from Egypt set foot in Iran since the two countries broke off diplomatic ties in the wake of Tehran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
Heading a delegation, Morsi arrived in Tehran on Thursday accompanied with the Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohammed Kamel Amr.
The meeting of the NAM heads of state kicked off in Tehran on Thursday with an inaugural speech by the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
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30 August 2012 - 15:46
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Egyptian counterpart Mohamed Morsi have discussed global and regional issues in Tehran.
