Trilateral summit of Iranian, Afghan, Pakistani presidents calls for cooperation in region

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Pakistani President Asef Ali Zardari and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met Sunday in the Iranian capital of Tehran to discuss regional issues. The "Tehran Declaration", inked by three presidents at the end of the meeting, agreed to the expansion of security, political and economic cooperation among the three neighboring states, the official IRNA news agency reported. The declaration also called to speed up energy cooperation among the three countries, according to the report. At the press conference after the meeting, the Iranian president said "We shared the same views...and we gained the great consensus." "All three countries believe that the only way to solve the problems ... is that only the nations of the very same region and the regional people are able to tackle the issues... by themselves," Ahmadinejad said. The Pakistani president also urged to further cooperation, which he said will give a new impetus to the developments in the region; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.chinaview.cn for full version