“Iran and France have had deep-rooted and long-standing relations with the least degree of fluctuations,” Velayati said Saturday in a meeting with visiting French Foreign Ministry Director General for North Africa and Middle East Affairs Jean Francois Giroux.
Velayati hoped that the past mode of ties between the two countries will be a model for current and future bilateral cooperation.
The director of the strategic research center of Iran’s Expediency Council also noted that Tehran and Paris had good cooperation on various issues in the past, citing as an example the bilateral efforts to end the 16-day crisis in Lebanon in 1996 and helping to end the massacre of Muslims in Bosnia back in the 1990s.
Jean Francois Giroux in this meeting referred to the nuclear talks between Iran and six world powers and hoped for a strong, viable and lasting agreement between the two sides.
Delegates representing Iran and the group of six world powers – Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany - concluded the latest round of negotiations on Tehran’s peaceful nuclear program in the Austrian capital of Vienna on Friday.
It was the fourth round of marathon talks in Vienna after the parties inked a six-month deal on Tehran’s nuclear activities in Switzerland on November 24, 2013.