Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian and his Kuwaiti counterpart Ahmed Nasser al-Mohammed Al-Sabah held a meeting on the sidelines of an emergency session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Islamabad on Sunday.

Stressing the need to expand relations between Iran and Kuwait, remove consular obstacles and facilitate travel between the two countries, Amirabdollahian expressed Tehran’s readiness to hold Joint Commission meetings as well as committees consular and border with Kuwait.

Iranian-Kuwaiti relations are based on brotherhood and good neighborliness, Iran’s top diplomat added.

For his part, Al-Sabah conveyed the greetings of the Kuwaiti Emir to the leader of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and to Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.

He said the joint commissions on consular and border affairs will be held soon.

The two foreign ministers also discussed the latest regional developments, and the Kuwaiti diplomat invited his Iranian counterpart to pay a visit to the Arab country.

Foreign ministers of OIC members gathered in Pakistan for an emergency meeting on the crisis in Afghanistan.