TEHRAN (FNA)- Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang is slated to arrive in Iran on Sunday to hold talks with senior Iranian officials.

The Vietnamese president, who will arrive in Mozambique later on Friday, is scheduled to leave Mozambique for Tehran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Vietnamese counterpart met in Jakarta last April on the sidelines of the 2nd Asian-African Conference Summit in the Indonesian capital.

In a relevant development in October, President Truong in a Friday meeting with Iran's new Ambassador to Hanoi Saleh Abidi voiced his country's interest in the further expansion of political, diplomatic and parliamentary ties with Tehran.

He said the agreement reached between Iran and Group 5+1 (the five permanent UN Security Council members - the US, Britain, France, Russia and China - plus Germany) on July 14 has created new opportunities for the promotion of cooperation between Hanoi and Tehran.

The Iranian envoy, for his part, highlighted numerous areas of potential cooperation existing between the two capitals.

In November 2014, Chairman of Vietnam National External Relations Committee Tran Van Hang, in a meeting with visiting Head of Iran-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship Group Hossein Sobhaninia in Hanoi, voiced pleasure in the age-old and close relations between Tehran and Hanoi, and said his country is interested in maintaining its growing cooperation with Iran.

During the meeting, he called for promotion of mutual cooperation between the two countries' parliaments, and underlined Hanoi's resolve to boost all-out ties with Tehran.

He added that Hanoi has always had and will have close cooperation with Tehran in the international scene.

In August 2014, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and Vietnamese Ambassador to Tehran Nguin Hong Thach explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating mutual cooperation.

Zarif described the status quo in Tehran-Hanoi relations as satisfactory, and said, "I hope the two countries' relations will further expand in all areas."

The Iranian foreign minister pointed to the ongoing Israeli crimes in Gaza, and said that the world countries should do their best to halt massacre of the defenseless Palestinians by Israel.

The Vietnamese ambassador, for his part, expressed his country's readiness for exchanging delegations between the two countries.

By Fars News Agency