Tehran, April 21: Iran’s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi says the Islamic Republic and Egypt are keen on developing their current level of relations.
“Both sides are keen to develop the current level of ties. This process would take time but I hope that would happen soon,” Salehi said on the sidelines of a ceremony in Pakistan’s Embassy in Tehran, Fars news agency reported.
Talking about the possibility of opening embassies in Tehran and Cairo, Salehi said, ” When our (diplomatic) relations are developed to the level of ambassador, surely embassies will be opened.”
The comments came after a call for normalization of ties with the Islamic Republic from the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, which underlined Cairo’s commitment to improving its long-frozen relations with Tehran.
Following the ouster of its pro-Western President Hosni Mubarak, the post-revolution Egypt looks poised to turn a new page in its relations with the Islamic Republic, with Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil al-Arabi foreseeing a new phase of relations between the two Muslim nations.
Iran severed ties with Egypt after Cairo signed the 1978 Camp David Accords with the Israeli regime and offered asylum to Iran’s deposed monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
——–Agencies