Iranian Speaker to Visit Russia Today

(FNA)- Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani is due to travel to Moscow on Wednesday to hold meetings and consultations with Russian officials on bilateral ties and regional issues.

During the trip, Larijani will confer with high-ranking Russian officials on ways to further expand bilateral and parliamentary relations as well as solutions to increase mutual economic investment by the two countries.

The visit comes after Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov underlined the need for the reinvigoration of international and regional efforts to put an immediate end to the crises in the Middle-East through diplomatic channels.

In a phone conversation with his Russian counterpart on Sunday, Amir Abdollahian said Moscow's recent war on terrorism in Syria has been effective and constructive.

The two senior diplomats stressed adopting political solution to regional crises, and called for expansion of international bodies' efforts to fight extremist groups within the framework of the international law and the UN Charter.

Amir Abdollahian and Bogdanov also expressed their concern on the deterioration of security crisis in Yemen, continued Saudi-led military aggression, and the escalation of humanitarian plight of the Muslim nation.

They called for termination of the Saudi-lad coalition aggressions against people of Yemen, bolstering of the political process and inter-Yemeni dialog as the only way out of the crisis in the war-hit country.

The Iranian and Russian deputy foreign ministers also supported efforts of the UN special envoy for Yemen to hold the meeting of Yemeni groups in the shortest possible time.