TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official at the Iranian parliament announced that a ranking parliamentary delegation from South Korea is slated to visit Tehran next week."The South Korean parliamentary delegation will travel to Tehran at the invitation of the Chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi," said Iranian Parliament Speakers advisor for international affairs Hossein sheikholeslam.
"The visit will be done mid next week," he added.
Shiekholeslalm further added that the South Korean delegation is scheduled to confer with Boroujerdi on the expansion of bilateral ties between the two friendly countries in the parliamentary sector.
Early in June, Head of Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Hamid Safdel and South Korean Ambassador to Tehran Sung Wung Yeub discussed avenues for boosting bilateral ties, specially in the trade field.
During the meeting, Safdel pointed to the current status of trade relations between Iran and South Korea, and said, "The exchange of trade delegations between private sectors of the two countries will further help boost mutual trade cooperation."
He also called for a fruitful cooperation between the Iranian and South Korean free trade zones.
In October, former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad underscored the age-old and cordial relations between Tehran and Seoul, and said both Iran and South Korea oppose unilateralism and seek a fair world order.
"Iran and South Korea relations are cultural and historical; both Seoul and Tehran are opposed to unilateralism and oppression in the international relations and want a new world order which would guarantee respect for entire world countries' sovereignty as well as ensuring peace and justice for all; achieving a new World Order needs cooperation and participation of all nations," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with Sung Wung Yeub at the time.
"There are good potentials for expansion of trade exchange as well as the tourism between Iran and South Korea," he added.
The volume of non-oil trade transactions between Iran and South Korea stood at $6.2bln in 2012.
By Fars News Agency
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