Iran, Qatar Discuss Implementation of Security Pact

(FNA)- Iranian and Qatari security officials in a meeting in Doha on Tuesday discussed enhancement of security ties, specially implementation of bilateral agreements.

During the meeting in the Qatari capital today, Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security Affairs Ali Abdollahi and Qatari Police Chief Major General Sa'ad bin Jassem Al-Khalifi underlined the need for the implementation of a security agreement that has recently been signed between the two countries.

The two sides discussed reinvigoration of border and marine ties as well as joint campaign against terrorism and organized crime, money laundering, fighting drug trafficking and expansion of cooperation between coast guards of Iran and Qatar.

A team of high-ranking security officials left Tehran for Doha on Monday to hold talks with their Qatari counterparts.

"We will pay a visit to Qatar tomorrow as a follow-up to the establishment of a joint security workgroup by Iran and Qatar," Abdollahi told reporters on Monday.

He reminded that Iran and Qatar signed a security pact in 2010, and said the two states are resolved to implement the agreement.

"Fighting terrorism, illegal border crossings in the two countries' coastal waters, money laundering and drug trafficking as well as training the two countries' police forces are included in the joint Iran-Qatar security agreement," he said.

Last month, Iranian and Qatari foreign ministry officials, co-chairing the first meeting of Tehran-Doha Joint Political Committee, stressed the need for widening and deepening the two states' all-out ties as well as restoring sustainable peace and tranquility to the region.

Iranian Deputy Foreign for Arab and African Affairs Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Qatari counterpart Mohammad Ibn Abdullah al-Ramihi, in the meeting in Tehran in March, reviewed ways to promote bilateral ties as part of the political discussions between the two countries.

The two delegations also discussed the latest regional and international developments and underlined the necessity to find a political solution to ongoing crises across the region, particularly in Syria.

They agreed to hold joint political committee sessions alternately in Iran and Qatar every three months.

The Iranian and Qatari diplomats called for collective efforts by governments of the region to restore peace and security to the region.

Meanwhile, the two parties agreed to hold foreign ministers meeting in Tehran within the next three months in the context of Joint Iran-Qatar High Commission.