8 May 1999
Mr. [Seyed Mehdi Mir] Abutalebi, our ambassador to Turkmenistan, came. He was concerned that relations between the two countries had cooled and asked me to accept Mr. [Saparmurat] Niyazov’s invitation and travel to Turkmenistan in order to …
7 May 1999
On the issue of Kosovo, there appears to be some progress. At the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting in Germany, attended by the Russian foreign minister, they agreed that Kosovo’s autonomy should be taken seriously, that armed forces under th…
6 May 1999
I studied at home until eleven in the morning. I went to the Koushk office and spent the time until five o’clock attending to affairs and reading bulletins and newspapers.
5 May 1999
Mr. [Seyed Mohammad] Jahromi, [Deputy for Executive Affairs and Elections of the Guardian Council], came. He gave a report on the results of the municipal council elections and said that, given the right-wing faction’s share, the expectatio…
4 May 1999
With the release of three prisoners of war, Milošević’s request for a meeting with [Bill] Clinton, [President of the United States], and increased activity by [Viktor] Chernomyrdin, [Russia’s special envoy], the possibility of an end to the…
3 May 1999
[Mr. Mohammad-Jalal Firouz Nia], Iran’s ambassador to Bahrain, came to report on the situation in Bahrain and bilateral relations, in connection with his meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
2 May 1999
Mr. [Mohammad Reza] Rahimi, the former governor of Kurdistan, came. He reported that the High Supervisory Board had filed a complaint against the Ministry of Interior because the Ministry had not accepted its position regarding the Tehran C…
1 May 1999
The Expediency Discernment Council [of the System] was in session until noon, and we completed the review of the general policies of the Third Development Plan.