News - Middle East: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian says he will meet his Saudi Arabian counterpart Prince Faisal bin Farhan “in the near future,” and that Iran has proposed three locations for the meeting.

“So far, we have agreed [with Saudi Arabia] that technical delegations from both sides will visit embassies and consulates general and make preparation for their practical reopening,” Amir-Abdollahian said at a press conference in Tehran on Sunday.

He added that the promotion of peace in the region has been among the main issues that Iran and Saudi Arabia underlined in their recently-signed agreement to restore diplomatic relations after seven years of estrangement.

Tehran and Riyadh have agreed to restore normal relations and exchanged messages through Switzerland during the last 10 days, he explained, adding that Iran has expressed its readiness to hold a meeting of foreign ministers and “proposed three locations for this meeting.”

The top Iranian diplomat noted that the two sides had held five rounds of security talks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad and finally agreed with an initiative made by Chinese President Xi Jinping during Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi’s visit to Beijing last month.