NATO has said that an Iranian diplomat had met with a representative of the Western military alliance for the first time in 30 years. Few details of the meeting were immediately available, but a NATO spokesperson Thursday told the news service ‘Voice of America’ that it had happened in Brussels last week. The French news agency AFP reported that an Iranian diplomat met with the senior NATO official Martin Erdmann for "an informal contact" about Afghanistan. Earlier on Thursday, Iran confirmed it would attend a UN-sponsored conference on neighboring Afghanistan next week.
Iran's Foreign Ministry said it has not yet decided who Tehran's representative would be. The United States will be represented by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who proposed to the conference hosts earlier this month that Iran be invited. A State Department spokesman, Gordon Duguid, said that Clinton had no plans for a "substantive" one-on-one meeting with Iranian officials at the conference.
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