DUSHANBE, January 15, Asia-Plus  -- Mr. Ali Asghar Sherdust, new Ambassador of Iran to Tajikistan, is expected to arrive in Dushanbe next week, Asia-plus has learned from Ali Reza Arasteh, Press Attaché, Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe.  

According to him, Mr. Sherdust had previously been Adviser to the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Issues of Fellow-countrymen living Abroad and MP from Tabriz.

Mr. Sherdust is well known in Tajikistan as he took part at a number of biennial conferences of the International Forum of Tajiks and Persian-speaking Peoples in Dushanbe.  

We will recall that tenure of the previous Iran’s Ambassador Nasser Sarmad-Parsa to Tajikistan ended in August 2006 and since that time Ahmad Ajalluiyan had acted as Charge D’ Affaires, Iranian Embassy in Dushanbe.  

Iranian news agency IRNA said that Iran''s new ambassador to Tajikistan, Ali Asghar Sherdust, along with Iran’s ambassadors to South Africa, Armenia and the Philippines as well as Iran''s general consul in the Russia’s Tatarstan Republic conferred with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad separately on January 11.  During the meetings, the envoys presented reports on the latest situation of their mission venues and their own programs for expanding bilateral ties.  President Ahmadinejad wished them success in their new missions and offered some guidelines in this concern.