
According to the IRNA dispatched reporter, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his first trip abroad in the Iranian New Year (1390 – started on March 20th) gave an address at the opening ceremony of the LDC conference.
The IRI President after his address had meetings with the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, his Turkish counterpart Abdullah Gul, as well as the presidents of Afghanistan, Benin, and the Comoros Island, exchanging viewpoints on various international and regional issues.
The president also attended a press conference before his departure Monday night and replied to the questions posed by Iranian and foreign reporters.
President Ahmadinejad’s last program on his day-log schedule in Turkey was a private meeting at his residence with Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Teyyip Erdogan.