AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in a telephone conversation discussed expansion of mutual cooperation and the latest regional developments.
During the phone talk on Monday night, Zarif and Çavuşoğlu explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating bilateral relations.
The two sides also reviewed the latest regional developments in their phone conversation.
The Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers also discussed the recent developments related to the coronavirus epidemic in Iran and the earthquake which occurred at the border of two countries on Sunday.
At least 9 people were killed and 37 others injured on Sunday in Eastern Turkey when an earthquake hit the border region with Iran, authorities said. Tremors from a 5.7-magnitude quake centered in Khoy County in West Azarbaijan Province were also felt in Turkey's Van province.
A spokesperson for Iran's emergency medical services said that the number of the injured in Khoy has reached 65 so far, of which 28 have been hospitalized and the rest received outpatient treatment.
According to a report of the Ministry of Health and Medical Education, 64 people in the country have been diagnosed with ‘coronavirus’.
Coronavirus has claimed the lives of 12 people in the country up to the present time.
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source : FNA
Tuesday
25 February 2020
2:25:06 PM
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Turkish counterpart Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu in a telephone conversation discussed expansion of mutual cooperation and the latest regional developments.