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Tehran, Aug 16, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here Thursday met with the President of the Seton Hall University, New Jersey, Monsignor Robert Sheeran and Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Dialogue Giandomenico Picco, in which the sides expressed concern over the escalation of violence in the world.
Kharrazi invited "world's independent intellectuals and those opposing violence" to cooperate with Iranian intelligentsia over promoting 'dialogue among civilizations' and banishing violence.
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Tehran, Aug 16, IRNA -- Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here Thursday met with the President of the Seton Hall University, New Jersey, Monsignor Robert Sheeran and Personal Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Dialogue Giandomenico Picco, in which the sides expressed concern over the escalation of violence in the world.
Kharrazi invited "world's independent intellectuals and those opposing violence" to cooperate with Iranian intelligentsia over promoting 'dialogue among civilizations' and banishing violence.
Picco briefed Kharrazi on the UN's efforts for dialogue and hoped that the current atmosphere of violence and intrigues in the world change for better under the efforts of statespersons, intellectuals and economists.
The United Nations named 2001 as the 'year of dialogue among civilizations' on the proposal of Iranian President Mohammad Khatami.
Sheeran, who is here at the head of a delegation from the Seton Hall University, expressed pleasure at the hospitality which he and his team have been receiving from the Iranian people.
Other members of the delegation stressed that what they had seen in Iran was quite different from a distorted image portrayed by the Western media from this country.
Washington and Tehran regularly exchange cultural and sports delegations despite holding no diplomatic ties after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, when the Students Following the Line of Imam captured the American embassy, known as the 'den of spies', here.
Iran, however, has either protested or called back some of its cultural delegations after its nationals have been subjected to finger-printing upon arrival at the American soil.
George W. Bush sapped this year a relatively warming ties between Tehran and Washington after he dubbed Iran as part of an 'axis of evil'.
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