By NNN-IRNA
Tehran : Postponement of the next round of Iran-US talks on Iraq is not related to an upcoming visit to Baghdad of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
“We saw no relationship between the two issues,” Mohammad-Ali Hosseini told reporters at his weekly press briefing Sunday.
Earlier in the day, he said that the fourth round of the Iran-US talks on the situation in Iraq was postponed for “technical reasons.” The two sides have so far held three rounds of talks on the Iraqi situation, on May 28, July 24 and Aug 6, 2007.
The talks were attended by Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq Hassan Kazemi Qomi, his US counterpart, Ryan Crocker, and representatives of the Iraqi government.
The Iranian president is due to visit Iraq “in the next Iranian month of Esfand (Feb 20-March 19),” Hosseini has said earlier on Sunday.
He added that the exact date of Ahmadinejad’s visit would be announced afterwards.