France, Iran agree in talks
NZPA-Reuter Paris France and Iran have reached verbal agreement on protection of interests in each other's countries following their break in diplomatic relations, the French Foreign Minister, Jean-Bernard Raimond, said yesterday.
He said in a radio interview that Pakistan would protect Iranian interests in France while Italy would look after French interests in Iran. France was still awaiting a formal accord on the arrangement, he said. An accord is a pre-condi-tion for talks on bringing diplomats home from Paris and Teheran. France and Iran severed ties last Friday over embassy interpreter Vahid Gordji’s refusal to leave the Iranian embassy in Paris to testify to police investigating a series of bombings last year in the French capital. Police are surrounding the Iranian embassy in Paris and the French mis-
sion in Teheran,
A deadline proposed by France for the return of French and Iranian diplomats expired on Wednesday, but Raimond said there was “nothing abnormal” about this.
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