IRI minister of economy in NY for int'l forum

IRI Ministerof Economy and Finance Sayyed Shamseddin Hosseini arrived in New York Thursday morning to attend a UN based economic forum aimed to to survey the world economy for 2012. The minister will elaborate inthe forum on the latest economic status of Iran as well as the Islamic Republic's achievements in that field. The two-day UN based economic forum starts on Thursday in the presence of world economic officials. The economy of Iran is the seventeenth largest in the world by purchasing power parity (PPP) and twenty-sixth by market value, according to IRNA