Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim
arrived in Tehran on Saturday to prepare for the upcoming Iran-Brazil summit,
the official news agency IRNA reported.
Amorim conveyed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the written approval of
President Luiz Inacio Lula de Silva for attending the summit in Tehran in the
near future, without however setting a specific date, dpa reported.
"We welcome the visit of President Lula de Silva and hope that the
summit will lead to strengthening of friendship between the two nations,"
Ahmadinejad told Amorim.
IRNA quoted also Amorim as hoping that the summit would expand bilateral ties
and lead to a new political and economic world order.
Amorim's three-day visit to Tehran is also aimed at implementing bilateral
economic agreements made earlier between the two countries.
"We should indeed seek a new world order as the existing global system is
decaying," Ahmadinejad said.
Since the presidency of Ahmadinejad in August 2005, Islamic Iran has expanded
its ties with socialist countries in Latin America such as Brazil, Bolivia,
Nicaragua and Venezuela.
Observers however believe that neither political nor economic ties with Latin
America would help Iran overcome the international isolation and financial
sanctions imposed on the country due to its defiance to suspend its
controversial nuclear enrichment programmes.