AFP: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Gambia on Sunday for a 24-hour working visit aimed at fostering relations between the Islamic republic and the West African nation. BANJUL (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Gambia on Sunday for a 24-hour working visit aimed at fostering relations between the Islamic republic and the West African nation.
Ahmadinejad was to hold talks with his Gambian counterpart Yahya Jammeh in the afternoon on economic and security issues, a source at the Gambian foreign ministry told AFP.
From Banjul, the Iranian leader — who last visited Gambia when it hosted an African Union summit in May 2006 — was to proceed to Brazil, Bolivia, Venezuela and Senegal.
Prior to leaving Tehran, he said the countries he would visit on his five-day trip "have the ability to restore a new world order".
