Iran’s foreign minister is willing to meet his US counterpart and to cooperate with Iraq to boost stability there, providing the talks would be adequately prepared beforehand, he said in remarks aired on Sunday.Iranian Foreign Minister Manoucheher Mottaki’s comments appeared to suggest Iran was open to diplomatic contact with the US to pave the way for talks with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.On Thursday in Egypt, Mottaki and Rice exchanged pleasantries at a lunch on the sidelines of a conference on efforts to stabilise Iraq. “We do not want to negotiate for the sake of negotiation. Talks between two foreign ministers require preparations,” Mottaki told Al Arabiya TV.
