Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will be visiting Saudi Arabia “in the near future” at the invitation of his Saudi counterpart, the ministry spokesperson said on Monday, APA reports citing Anadolu Agency.
Addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, Nasser Kanaani said Amirabdollahian was by his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan and the visit will take place soon.
He, however, did not give an exact date of the visit, which will be the first official visit by an Iranian foreign minister to the Arab country in more than seven years.
During the trip, the two sides will hold consultations and discussions on various issues, including the expansion of bilateral cooperation in the economic field, Kanaani said.
He stressed that relations between the two countries are “progressing step by step.”
The spokesperson also referred to an official invitation from Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to visit Riyadh. He, however, said the date of the trip has not been decided yet.
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