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President Ahmadinejad to set off on Latin American tour on Friday
IRAN'S President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will fly to Latin America this weekend in search of new allies as three of the region's most anti-American leaders are sworn into power.

On a four-day trip, Mr Ahmadinejad will call on the presidents of Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua — who are being sworn in within days of each other after recent election victories.

He will also meet Evo Morales, the left-wing President of Bolivia who took office a year ago.

The visit is certain to alarm the Bush Administration, which will look on as one of its biggest global foes — who is suspected of wanting nuclear weapons — courts Washington's regional opponents in its own backyard.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/iran-leader-woos-latin-america/2007/01/11/1168105116534.html

President of Iran woos allies in Latin America
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, is to fly to Latin America this weekend in search of new international allies as three of the region's most anti-American leaders are sworn into power.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/11/wiran11.xml

Iran's president to visit Latin America
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is to kick off a four-day tour Saturday to Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela, whose leaders share his defiance towards the United States, media said on Wednesday.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10418697

President Ahmadinejad Leaves Tehran for Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua
ISNA - Tehran
Service: Foreign Policy

TEHRAN, Jan. 09 (ISNA)-President Ahmadinejad is to leave Tehran on Friday, January 12nd for a three day trip to the three South American Countries, Venezuela, Ecuador and Nicaragua.

The President according to the trip schedule after entering the Caracas airport on the 13th will be officially welcomed by the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez.

Sunday morning the president will depart Caracas for Managua and will visit Nicaragua for one day. In this short visit which is coincided with the initiation of the Nicaraguan President, Daniel Ortega after a official welcome both sides will talk on similar interest.

Ahmadinejad then is to leave Managua for the Ecuadorian capital so to participate in the presidential oath taking ceremony of Rafael Correa.

Iran's President at the side line of this ceremony is to meet some of the participant officials such as the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales.
http://www.isna.ir/Main/NewsView.aspx?ID=News-858516&Lang=E

President Ahmadinejad to set off on Latin American tour on Friday
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0701093854185033.htm

Ahmadinejad to visit Caracas - Venezuela at a glance
IRI President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will depart Tehran for a regional tour of three Latin American countries, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and Ecuador, on Friday night, January 12th.

President Ahmadinejad would on Saturday morning, January 13th, local time, arrive in Caracas Air Port, where the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez would officially receive him.

He would later on the same day hold his first round of talks with President Chavez, while members of his high ranking accompanying delegation would attend meetings with their Venezuelan counterparts.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0701110673090445.htm

Ahmadinejad to visit Quito - Ecuador at a glance
... President Ahmadinejad would attend the swearing in ceremony of the new Ecuadorian President Elect Rafael Correa on Monday, that would be held in the presence of a number of world leaders.

The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran would in addition to his meetings and talks with his Ecuadorian counterpart during that state visit, will meet and confer with a number of other presidents, including Bolivia's President Evo Morales.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0701116444090729.htm

Ahmadinejad to visit Managua - Nicaragua at a glance
... President Ahmadinejad is scheduled to depart Venezuelan capital, Karacas for Managua, Nicaragua, after meeting Venezuelan officials.

Ahmadinejad's short visit of Nicaragua is scheduled to coincide with the swearing in of the new Nicaraguan President-elect Daniel Ortega.

Private talks of the two countries' presidents and talks between the members of the high ranking delegations accompanying the Iranian president with their Nicaraguan counterparts are among the programs of this state visit.

Ahmadinejad would depart Nicaragua on Sunday evening, local time, to take part at swearing in ceremony of Ecuador's President Elect Rafael Correa in that country's capital city, Quito.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-22/0701111669090859.htm