Palestinian President Yasser Arafat will arrive in Tehran Thursday for talks with Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, the foreign ministry announced Wednesday.
According to the official IRNA news agency, Arafat will make "a brief visit for talks with Iran's head of state Mohammad Khatami who heads the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC)," the ministry said in a statement.
The visit comes at Arafat's request, it added.
Arafat, who has been making an extensive tour of mainly Arab states to explain his stance at last month's failed Camp David summit with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, is due in Moscow later Thursday for a two-day stay - TEHRAN (AFP)
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