Mohammad Javad Zarif

A Russian fighter jet came into close proximity with a U.S. air force jet over Syria on Oct. 10 to identify it, "not to scare it," Russia's state ITAR-TASS news agency quoted the defense ministry as saying on Oct. 14. 

The ministry said its SU-30CM jet was within 2-3 kilometers of the U.S. plane. 

Within the framework of his participation in Ministerial Week of the 70th UN General Assembly, in New York City, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will have a working breakfast today, Tuesday, 29 September, with the Foreign Ministers of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).

The United States announced Aug. 24 it has "no intention" to reopen an embassy in Tehran, just one day after the United Kingdom reopened its diplomatic mission in the Iranian capital.

Britain's foreign secretary reopened his country's embassy in Tehran on Aug. 23 in a long-awaited step signalling better relations four years after a mob stormed the compound, forcing its closure.

The foreign ministers of Russia and Iran said after talks in Moscow that their two countries have a united position on Syria, with both diplomats warning against any outside attempt to dictate a resolution to the Syrian civil war.
     

A high-level Afghan delegation arrived in Pakistan on August 13 to discuss an action plan after Islamabad-hosted peace talks with the Taliban were suspended last month, officials said.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met embattled Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on August 12, and called on regional countries to "fight terrorism and extremism".

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Syria on August 12 and discuss a "new plan" by the Islamic republic to help resolve the conflict there, his spokeswoman said.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Turkey on Aug. 11 as he embarks on the second round of his tour of regional countries, including Lebanon and Pakistan, after a nuclear agreement was reached between Iran and world powers.

Ivica Dacic on Monday "thanked Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for the country's principled position on Kosovo and Metohija."

Iran is among the countries that have not recognized ethnic Albanians unilaterally proclaimed independence of Serbia's southern province, made in early 2008.