IRNA – Planning for Foreign Minister's trips to other Central Asian countries and Caucasus including Tajikistan is on the Foreign Ministry agenda and will be carried out in due time, says Bahram Qasemi, the Foreign Ministry spokesman.


“The official policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran is to develop and foster the relations with all neighbors and the countries in the region particularly the neighboring countries in north,” said Qasemi in an answer to IRNA’s reporter's question on the reason behind Foreign Minister’s not taking trips to other countries in Central Asia.

“Iranian officials have taken several trips to the countries in Central Asia and Caucasus but as you are informed, the Foreign Minister's busy schedule makes it impossible for him to take trips to all countries in that region,” he also added.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has been touring Turkmenistan, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan since Sunday; certain foreign media have claimed that he had been supposed to visit Tajikistan but didn’t.