TEHRAN -- Yemenese Minister of Religious Endowments and Guidance Qasim Ahmed al-Ajam arrived in Tehran on Sunday to participate in the three-day 15th international conference on Islamic Unity which is to begin here tomorrow.

According to the Public Relations Office of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, the visit is at the invitation of Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Ahmad Masjed Jameie.

During his five-day stay in the country, Al-Ajam is scheduled to hold talks with the Iranian minister of culture and Islamic guidance and forge a bilateral cooperation on endowments affairs, IRNA reported.

The Head of the Center for Amity Among Islamic Sects, Ayatollah Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri, recently told reporters that over 70 scholars and scientific and Islamic personalities from 29 world countries will be attending the conference.

Representatives and scholars from Britain, Albania, Russia, France, Lebanon, Australia, India, Romania, Austria, Sudan, Egypt, China, Tunisia, Qatar, Bangladesh, Oman, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Croatia, Uganda, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Algeria, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia are among those expected to take, he added.

The conference has been called on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him and his household) and Imam Ja'far Sadeq (A.S.), the sixth imam of the infallible household of the prophet, he added.