In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a conference in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Aug. 26, 2019. Rouhani defended his foreign minister’s surprise visit to the G-7 summit, saying he ready to go anywhere to negotiate a way out of the crisis following the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
TEHRAN, Sept 16, 2019 (AFP) –
Iran has not made any plans for President Hassan Rouhani to meet his US
counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the upcoming UN General
Assembly, a spokesman said Monday.
“We have neither planned for this meeting, nor do I think
such a thing would happen in New York,” the foreign ministry’s Abbas
Mousavi said in remarks aired on state television.