Iran's 1st VP Jahangiri Meets President Mugabe

Santa Cruz, June 15, IRNA – Iranian First Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri before G77+China Summit’s beginning, for which he is in Bolivia, met and conferred with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. In the meeting which took place on Saturday morning, local time (late Saturday night Tehran time) in the hotel residence where they are both staying, issues of mutual interest for both sides were addressed. Robert Gabriel Cariga Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924. He has been the head of the government of that African country ever since its independence from Britain in 1980. On August 3, 2013, Mugabe won the presidential election gaining 61% of the votes for a seventh term in office. President Mugabe visited Iran in the year to participate in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit, when he met and conferred with high ranking Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei. Jahangiri’s other meetings in Bolivia today included meeting the county’s Senate speaker, President Evo Morales and the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon. The G77+China Summit is scheduled to be held on Saturday and Sunday, local time, in Bolivia’s Santa Cruz City and the Iranian first vice president will be one of the lecturers in it. The Islamic Republic of Iran is currently the rotating head of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Bolivia is the present day head of the G77. Bolivia this year took over the rotating presidency of the G77+China, a bloc of developing nations within the United Nations system that has grown to include 133 countries, which also marks its 50th anniversary in its eastern city of Santa Cruz on June 14-15./end