MOSCOW, March 29. /TASS/. Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Wednesday he hoped that the draft of a comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement between Tehran and Moscow will be finalized next month.

"I am very grateful that the draft of a comprehensive agreement on strategic partnership between our countries has been reviewed and finalized in Russia," he said at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow.

"I sincerely hope that within the next month the legal departments of our countries’ foreign ministries will finalize the draft of this agreement," the Iranian foreign minister stated.

"I would like to point out that we are, of course, in the final stages before signing this agreement," he continued.

The Iranian foreign minister stressed that various delegations from the two countries, including at the highest level, are meeting on a regular basis and discussing various issues.

"Our presidents [Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Iran’s Ebrahim Raisi] maintain constant and direct contact. Our interaction in regional and international organizations continues swimmingly," Hossein Amir-Abdollahian added.