Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi

Date: 18/09/1997

this week again invited the Union to make an offer on returning its ambassadors to Tehran. “The EU has so far had good cooperation with Iran and we hope that it will give a proposal to settle the problem,” he said. But later reports indicated that Iran was still insisting that Germany's ambassador should go back last. EU foreign ministers had earlier called again on the Luxembourg presidency to pursue talks with Iran, but stressed they would not isolate any of their members.