Bolivian Parliamentary Delegation to Visit Tehran Next Week http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=9007161511

A high-ranking Bolivian parliamentary delegation is due to visit Tehran next week to meet with Iranian officials on the two countries' bilateral relations and other issues of mutual interest. The trip is scheduled to take place at the invitation of the Chairman of Iran-Bolivia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Arsalan Fathipour. The Bolivian delegation is slated to meet with Fathipour, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani and other ranking officials of the country. During the meetings, the two sides are due to discuss different ways of expanding bilateral and parliamentary relations and boosting joint ventures between the two countries.

Iran has in recent years expanded friendly ties with Latin America, specially in economic, trade and industrial fields. Since taking office in 2005, Ahmadinejad has expanded Iran's cooperation with many Latin American states, including Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba.He visited Bolivia late 2009 and inaugurated an Iranian Red Crescent hospital as well as several more projects implemented and completed by Iranian technicians and experts in the country, including a milk factory and a petrochemical complex.

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