Showing posts with label Iranian denial. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Iran Denies US Claims of Meeting

BBC: Iran has denied that a meeting took place between their main representative at an international conference on Afghanistan and a senior US official.

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Iran said Mr Akhoondzadeh did not meet US officials in The Hague. Photo courtesy of the BBC

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had said that Richard Holbrooke and Mohammad Mehdi Akhoondzadeh had an informal but "cordial exchange".

She said the US had given the Iranian delegates a letter, but Iran's foreign ministry "categorically" denied this.

The US had welcomed Iran's presence at the meeting as a "promising sign".

On Tuesday, Mrs Clinton said that Mr Holbrooke and Mr Akhoondzadeh had had a brief meeting on the sidelines of the conference in the Hague.

She said the meeting had been unplanned but that the men had agreed to "stay in touch". >>> | Wednesday, April 1, 2009