Iranian and Saudi foreign ministers to meet in the coming days

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Saudi counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud agreed in a phone call on Sunday to meet in the coming days, the Xinhua news agency reported.

The Iranian foreign minister expressed satisfaction with the “positive trend” of the bilateral relation, highlighting Tehran’s determination to promote its good-neighborliness policy, according to the report.

The Saudi foreign minister, for his part, stressed the necessity of constant contact and meetings between the two countries’ officials, describing the ongoing trend of measures by Tehran and Riyadh as “positive and satisfactory.”

Last month, Saudi Arabia and Iran announced a Chinese-brokered deal to restore ties between the two countries, seven years after they were severed.

Sunday’s phone call was the third phone conversation between the two top diplomats since the signing of the agreement.

The deal is expected to see Iran and Saudi Arabia reopen their embassies and missions within two months and implement security and economic cooperation deals signed more than 20 years ago.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi recently received an invitation from Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to visit the kingdom following the reconciliation deal.