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Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi Calls Pakistan’s Mohammad Ishaq Dar On Regional Diplomacy
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Iran's FM Araghchi and Pakistan's FM Dar held talks on regional diplomacy amid tensions. They stressed diplomacy as the path to manage regional tensions.
6 outlets told this the same way.
Araghchi calls Dar
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi held a phone call with Pakistan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mohammad Ishaq Dar, to discuss bilateral relations, regional developments and diplomatic efforts. Pakistan’s foreign ministry said Araghchi and Ishaq Dar discussed in a phone call regional issues and stressed the importance of dialogue and diplomacy.
Araghchi was in Baghdad to attend the 52nd Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Araghchi’s diplomacy push came as the Iranian and Pakistani foreign ministers emphasized dialogue and diplomacy in their discussion of regional issues.
Egypt and Turkey in Baghdad
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty held a series of meetings in Baghdad on the sidelines of the 52nd session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s Council of Foreign Ministers. Badr Abdelatty and his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, called for the resumption of diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Iran to ease regional tensions.
Abdelatty said Egypt supported closer coordination through the regional quadrilateral mechanism and rejected any threat to Gulf states or the use of strategic straits and maritime routes as instruments of pressure or escalation. Egyptian Minister Abdelatty emphasized the need for a return to dialogue and the resumption of diplomatic negotiations between the United States and Iran, with the aim of reaching understandings that would end the current escalation.
Talks aim to reduce escalation
Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Migration, Dr. Badr Abdelatty, met Hakan Fidan in Baghdad to exchange perspectives and coordinate initiatives aimed at de-escalating regional tensions.
Ambassador Nader Zaki said the discussions covered developments regarding the Iranian dossier in considerable detail and that Abdelatty emphasized the importance of continuing diplomatic efforts and supporting political solutions.
Abdelatty stressed the need to intensify coordination through the regional quartet mechanism to enhance security and stability, while also rejecting the use of maritime corridors and straits as tools for pressure and escalation.
The two ministers reviewed proposals for containing the Iranian crisis and emphasized the need for a return to negotiations and diplomacy between the United States and Iran to end the current escalation.