June 25, 2007	Monday	Jamadi-us-Sani 09, 1428

TEHRAN, June 24: Iran on Sunday named economist Mohammad Khazai who has worked at the World Bank to replace its long-serving ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Javad Zarif.

“Mr Zarif's replacement will continue to follow the principles of the policies of the Islamic republic,” foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini told reporters.

Khazai, born in 1953, served as an MP between 1980 and 1988 and has also worked as an adviser to the executive council of the World Bank.—AFP