Iran-UAE: 6th Joint Consular Conference begins in Tehran

Sixth Consular Conference of Islamic Republic of Iran and United Arab Emirates, headed jointly by deputy foreign ministers of Iran and UEA began at the IRI Foreign Ministry here Monday. According to the IRNA Wednesday Night news team, the internet website of the IRI Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the other officials of the two countries in this conference include coast guard commanders, custom clearance chiefs, police commanders, and legal affairs deputies of the Judiciary Forces.  IRI Deputy Foreign Minister in Consular and Parliamentary Affairs Hassan Qashqavi and the UAE Deputy Foreign Minister Sadeq Ahamd al-Yahdan are heading the two countries’ delegations at the conference.  Also present at the conference that would end on Tuesday night in Tehran, there are the ambassadors of Iran and the UAE and the two sides’ discussions are focused over various issues, including consular affairs, such as visa issuance, solving the problems of the prisoners of the two countries in each other’s jails, facilitating the customs clearance obstacles in the two sides, judiciary and disciplinary issues.  At the end of the two-day conference the heads of the two countries delegations would sing the Communiqué of the Sixth Consular Conference of Islamic Republic of Iran and United Arab Emirates.  It is to be noted that the commanders of the two countries coast guards, who are surveying the issues of mutual concern at an exclusive committee would eventually, too, sign a separate document on respective reached agreements.