Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 27 / Trend D.Khatinoglu/
A diplomatic source who serves at the Interests Section of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Egypt rejected "rumours" about Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's four-hour long visit to Iran, saying his visit to Iran's nuclear facilities was scheduled in addition to his visit to Tehran to take part in Non-Aligned Movement 16th summit.
The diplomat, who spoke with Mehr News Agency anonymously, added that Morsi's visit to Iran will take more time than was published by some media outlets (4 hours). Mehr also reported that Morsi will arrive in Iran on Wednesday evening.
Earlier, Iranian MP Hossein Naghavi reported, quoting Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi who said that Iran is launching cultural, industrial, scientific and other tours based on the request of each representative of Non-Aligned Movement who will take part in the summit in Tehran.
Naghavi said Salehi announced that they planned to launch several tours, including showing Iranian nuclear facilities to each representative of the NAM member countries on their request.
Iran is also going to demonstrate its latest military achievement to the representatives.
Negotiations over Iran's disputed nuclear programme have continued since 2002, when Iran's hidden uranium enrichment centre Natanz was revealed.
Until now, the UN Security Council has adopted four rounds of sanctions on Iran to curb Iran's nuclear policy and the country's sensitive nuclear activities, but Iran announced it will keep up its nuclear activities. The West suspects that Iran is going to make nuclear weapons, but Iran rejects the accusation calling its activities "peaceful".
The EU and the U.S. adopted tightening sanctions over Iran's banking and oil sector which has led to a halving of the country's oil export to 1.1 mbpd.
The 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement will be held in Tehran on August 28-29.
NAM is an international organisation that brings together 118 countries in the world on the principles of non-participation of military blocs. NAM was officially established by 25 states at the Belgrade Conference in September 1961. The movement's establishment was preceded by the Bandung Conference in 1955.