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Lok Sabha speaker to to visit Iran
Sunday October 30, 2011 10:02:40 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Lok Sabha
speaker Meira Kumar will be visiting Iran in the first week of
November, an official said Sunday.
In a visit which is expected to boost bilateral ties, the speaker
will be attending several cultural and education programmes in
Iran, the official said.
Going there on the invitation of her Iranian counterpart Ali
Larijani, the Lok Sabha speaker will lead a delegation of six
Indian parliamentarians. She is also scheduled to meet Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Meira Kumar's visit to Iran will be the first by any Lok Sabha
speaker in last eight years after Manohar Joshi's visit in 2003.
With 150th anniversary of Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore being
celebrated, the speaker will inaugurate a plaque of one of
Tagore's poems in the museum of Iranian parliament. The poem, "Paroshey
Janmodine" (A birthday in Persia), was written by Tagore during
his visit to Tehran in 1932.
The speaker will also unveil a statue of scientist Jagdish Chandra
Bose at Pardis technology park in the University of Tehran's
Science and Technology and interact with students at a Kendriya
Vidyalaya branch in Tehran.
A boost in economic relations is also being expected with India
looking forward to attract Iranian investments in the petroleum
sector. The signing of the bilateral Double Taxation Avoidance
Agreement and the Bilateral Investment Protection Agreement are
also on the cards between the two countries.
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