Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki has announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to visit Tehran in October.

Mottaki made the remark upon his arrival in Moscow Tuesday night at the head of a delegation of experts on the Iran-Russia Joint Economic Commission.

The foreign minister added that Putin will visit Iran to attend the summit of the Caspian Sea littoral states.

In meetings to be held between Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Russian counterpart in Tehran, new ground will be broken that will lead to an expansion of cooperation, Mottaki promised.

The minister noted that his goal in Moscow was to hold talks with the Head of the Russian Federation's Atomic Energy Agency and the Russian head of the two countries' joint economic commission, Sergei Kiriyenko. Their talks will center on bolstering economic cooperation.

He stated that the current volume of trade and economic exchange between Tehran and Moscow is not in line with the potential of the two countries, stressing that both sides enjoy the capability of promoting cooperation in all fields.

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