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Foreign ministers of Iran and Germany talk in Geneva

Iran Materials 1 March 2011 11:07 (UTC +04:00)

Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Iran and Germany met and held talks on sidelines of 16th Geneva UN Human Rights Council Conference, IRNA reported.

According to IRNA's dispatched reporter, Ali Akbar Salehi and Guido Westerwelle reviewed the latest status of developments in Tehran-Berlin relations, expressing satisfaction over the improving trend of them, emphasizing that contacts and consultations need to continue.

The German foreign minister in the meeting reiterated, "Relying on the existing mutual trust between the two countries officials, we can expect having more important and greater level cooperation in the future."

Salehi, too, in the meeting announced Iran's readiness for continuation of consultations and greater cooperation between Tehran and Berlin.

Salehi and Westerwelle also had a meeting in Tehran last week after which two German reporters who were imprisoned in Tabriz were freed and returned home.

Two journalists Marcus Hellwig and Jens Koch from the German magazine Bild am Sonntag, who arrived in Iran as tourists, were arrested in Tabriz in October 2010 after they conducted an interview with the son of Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani. The Iranian Prosecutor General said they plead guilty in illegal journalistic activity and links with foreign "counter-revolutionary movements."

On February 19, Iran's Revolution Court converted the initial 20-month prison sentence of Hellwig and Koch to fines of $50,000 each. Following their trial, the two Germans were released.

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