Message from Khatami to Bouteflika

Iranian President Mohammed Khatami stated that expanding rapport and developing comprehensive cooperation in many economic, political and cultural fields among the Islamic stated to meet the wide scope of challenges facing the Arab states has become inevitable. Khatami said in a message he sent to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika that in order to enhance the financial basis of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, Iran raised the issue of establishing economic companies in participation with the countries that are members in the Islamic Development Bank.