BERLIN (IRNA) -- Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi will head a 12-member journalist delegation to Germany next week, a German Foreign Ministry official told IRNA here Monday.

The journalists’ visit, scheduled for November 30 through December 6, will include tours of German media centers in Hamburg and meeting with German Foreign Ministry officials in Berlin, said Susanne Schuetz who is deputy director of media cooperation with Islamic states at the German Foreign Ministry.

The Iranian journalists will also attend a two-day symposium, entitled 'Media and Global Challenges’, on December 4-5 in Berlin.