Amid mounting tension in the Middle East region, Iranian and Lebanese foreign ministers have exchanged views on mutual relations and leading regional and international developments, Press TV reported.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Ali Shami, who is in the Iranian capital city of Tehran as the special envoy of the country's president to attend the second International Nowruz Celebrations, extended on Monday an official invitation to his Iranian counterpart Ali Akbar Salehi to pay a visit to Beirut.
Shami said Tehran and Beirut enjoy consolidated relations and expressed his country's keenness to promote cooperation with Iran in the fields of railway transportation and energy transfer lines.
"Bilateral cooperation in such areas will play a constructive role in increasing economic and trade exchanges and promoting tourism," the top Lebanese minister pointed out.
The Iranian foreign minister also said Tehran and Beirut have "close and good" relations in different fields and praised resistance and prudence of the Lebanese nation.
Salehi and Shami discussed ways to provide consular and visa services for the Iranian and Lebanese nationals.
The second International Nowruz Celebrations began in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Sunday in the presence of senior officials from the Persian-speaking states of Tajikistan and Afghanistan and countries that celebrate Nowruz such as Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Albania, and Turkey.