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Iran's foreign minister Ali Akbar Salehi is currently on a visit to Libya on the invitation of the National Transitional Council. He arrived in the country's eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday and on the same day travelled to the Libyan capital, Tripoli.
During his visit Salehi is holding talks with the NTC members and intends to exchange views with the Libyan leaders on ways to expand mutual relations.
When Salehi's visit was announced, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said: “We believe that due to the common interests of the two nations, the foreign minister's visit can be a beginning for new mutual cooperation.”
Talks about mutual and international issues, the necessity for the withdrawal of NATO forces from Libya and the fate of the prominent Lebanese Shia cleric Imam Mousa Sadr are main topics on the Iranian minister's agenda.
Sadr, the founder of Lebanon's Amal Movement, was a popular and highly revered Lebanese Shia cleric of Iranian descent, who was kidnapped along with two of his companions, Mohammed Yaqoub and Abbas Badreddin, while on an official visit to Libya on August 31, 1978.
He was scheduled to meet with officials from the government of the former Libyan dictator Muammar Al Qathafi. Now, after the fall of Al Qathafi, Iran has stepped up diplomatic efforts to clarify the fate of the Shia cleric.
