Jul 6, 2023, 1:50 PM

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Iran, Sudan FMs meet after 7 years diplomatic ties cut

Iran, Sudan FMs meet after 7 years diplomatic ties cut

TEHRAN, Jul. 06 (MNA) – The foreign ministers of Iran and Sudan met on the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement member countries' meeting in Baku 7 years after the diplomatic ties were severed.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian who arrived in Baku on Tuesday evening to take part in the two-day Ministerial Meeting of the NAM Coordinating Bureau, met with some of his counterparts in the Azerbaijani capital.

Iranian foreign minister met and held talks with his Sudanese counterpart Ali al Sadiq on Thursday. 

The meeting between the foreign ministers of Iran and Sudan took place after seven years of cutting diplomatic relations between the two countries.

Amir-Abdollahian in this regard said, "On the sidelines of the Non-Aligned Movement meeting, I met with the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sudan and discussed the imminent resumption of diplomatic relations between Sudan and Iran."

Sudan followed Saudi Arabia's decision by severing diplomatic relations with Iran on January 4, 2016, after Iranian protesters, enraged by the execution of prominent Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr by the Saudi government, stormed its diplomatic mission in Iran.

Iran and Saudi Arabia announced in March they would restore diplomatic ties and Iran reopened its embassy in Riyadh on June 6.

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