“Tehran and Ankara should quickly remove any possible obstacles to the two countries’ relations,” Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said this during his joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on Monday, Mehr news agency reports.

“We agreed to start our diplomatic talks on the provisions of drawing a roadmap for long-term cooperation between the two countries, and we hope that this document will be signed in the presence of the two presidents during the forthcoming visit of Turkish President Erdogan to Tehran,” Amir-Abdollahian said.

“At present, the two countries are cooperating not only on bilateral issues but also on regional issues such as Afghanistan, Iraq and stability in the South Caucasus region, and we are ready to cooperate with Iran within the proposed 3+3 framework,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said.