TEHRAN, October 27. /TASS/. Iranian and Russian Presidents Masoud Pezeshkian and Vladimir Putin discussed cooperation in the oil and gas sector at their meeting on Tuesday on the sidelines of the summit of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum in Moscow, the Iranian president’s office said.

According to it, the presidents discussed "recent developments in bilateral relations and ways of strengthening cooperation and stressed the need for closer cooperation in the political, economic, and trade spheres."

Among the key topics were issues of energy cooperation, the development of ties in the oil and gas sector, the expansion of economic exchanges, and the use of each other’s potential for the implementation of joint projects, it added.