Publish Date: 23 June 2016 - 15:01

TEHRAN, Jun. 23 (MNA) – After a heavily scheduled two-day visit to Paris, Iranian FM Zarif left the French capital early on Thursday and around an hour later arrived in Dutch capital city of Amsterdam.

Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, arrived in the capital city of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, in the second leg of his third European tour. Amsterdam is the second stop of the Iranian top diplomat after he started his tour on Monday in Paris. The Hague is the last European city of this round of Zarif’s European tour before he leaves for Uzbek capital city of Tashkent to sit the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.   

In Paris, Zarif had bilateral meetings with French President, Francois Hollande, French Minister of Finance and Public Accounts Michel Sapin, the President of the Senate of France Gérard Larcher, his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault, President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Airbus Fabrice Brégier at the Ministry of Economy of France, the President of the National Assembly Claude Bartolone.

In addition to delivering a speech at the National School of Administration (The École nationale d'administration /ENA), the chief of Iran’s diplomatic ministry also addressed a meeting at the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces of the French Senate

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