ABU DHABI Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi will visit the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on May 23 to discuss three disputed islands which control the world's main oil supply route, officials said Sunday. Kharrazi will hold talks on regional developments and ties between Iran and its Persian Gulf Arab neighbors, said Khalifa al-Mirri, director of Persian Gulf affairs at the UAE Foreign Ministry. Other official sources said the talks would also cover the Islamic Republic's dispute with the UAE over the three southern Persian Gulf islands of Abu Mussa, the Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. Tehran has rejected an Abu Dhabi proposal to resort to international aribtration, saying it should be tackled through bilateral negotiations.

(AFP)