Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry announced that presidents of Azerbaijan, South Africa and Switzerland are to visit Iran in the forthcoming days

Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry announced that presidents of Azerbaijan, South Africa and Switzerland are to visit Iran in the forthcoming days.

At his weekly press briefing on Monday, Hossein Jaberi Ansari said the Azeri President Ilham Aliyev will be in Tehran on Tuesday.

Swiss President Johann Schneider-Amman will visit Iran within days on February 26 to 28. South African President Jacob Zuma is scheduled to visit Tehran on February 29.

These visits from three Asian, African and European heads of states indicate start of a new round of diplomatic relations between Iran and different countries, said Jaberi Ansari.

The official hoped such relations would secure interests of Iran and other countries.

Talking on the recent visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Brussels, Belgium, Jaberi Ansari called the trip “successful”.

He said Dr Zarif held talks with Belgian and European Union (EU) officials.

The Brussels talks focused on bilateral issues and facilitation of implementation of the nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) as well as its economic outcomes, he said.