The meeting comes after a two-day European Union summit in Brussels starting on Thursday.
Market attention is also on a two-day European Union leaders summit that began Thursday.
Mr Khatib's resignation comes a day after European Union foreign ministers failed to resolve their differences over whether to exempt Syrian rebels from an arms embargo.
The pair head to Brussels on Thursday for a two-day summit of European Union leaders regarded as crucial in tackling a growing economic crisis.
BEIRUT Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps launched several days of drills Monday to test missiles capable of hitting targets as far away as Israel, one day after the European Union put into effect its planned embargo against Iranian oil.
However, the European Union, which is holding a two-day summit in the Finnish capital Helsinki, has said it will send a strong signal to Russia that its assault on Chechnya was unacceptable.
One complication is that Ireland's voters will also be voting on whether to approve the European Union's Amsterdam Treaty on the same day and there are some fears that the two issues may get confused.
And The Sun also said that the European Union was going to ban April Fool's Day altogether!
Earlier in the day, the head of the European Union Observer team, Thijs Berman, said voting was going well and there were no signs of fraud.
MPs were debating the European Union Bill's committee stage for a fifth day - the government says the bill will stop more UK powers being handed to Brussels without a public vote but Labour argues it is a political gesture aimed at appeasing Eurosceptic Tories.
As to the others, Ruth Davidson of the Conservatives pursued the issue of independent Scottish membership of the European Union with, I felt, modest effect on the day.
Later in the day Monday it was reported that a European Union finance official said the Cyprus bailout measure could serve as a template for future EU banking problems.
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Look for another volatile day in most markets Friday, amid the European Union debt crisis.
The European Union is considering halting purchases of 600, 000 barrels a day of Iranian oil as part of sanctions.
If the military bosses are sincere about wanting their country one day to become a full member of the European Union, they will have to learn how to accept the will of elected civilians, rather than always trying to get things the way they want them.
If more countries introduce contracts for carbon-emission quotas compatible with those traded in the EU (which use a unit called the European Union Allowance), the result could be a single worldwide market one day.
That is why officials from more than 70 countries and organisations gathered in Madrid on October 23rd for a two-day conference on aid to Iraq (convened by America, the European Union, the UN, the International Monetary Fund and a few others).
The news comes a day after a delegation of Welsh politicians visited to discuss the possibility of European Union assistance to protect the jobs.
At the end of the day there is no alternative to the austerity and the fiscal prudence that the European Union wants to see from its members.
The day's lows occurred late in the session, after Dow Jones Newswires reported that European Union finance ministers' four-hour teleconference failed to yield a new agreement to beef up the region's rescue funds, dashing traders' hopes for progress increasing the region's bailout powers.
European Union leaders praise President Bush's approach in taking on Iran's nuclear ambitions at a one-day meeting in Vienna.
To complicate matters the union flag flies every day on the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh alongside the Saltire, and the European flag.
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Iran, which exports 3.4m barrels a day, has threatened to use oil as a weapon in its disputes with America and the European Union.
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