TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced on Saturday that Tehran and Masqat would soon sign a security pact to further the two sides' cooperation in maintaining regional peace and stability.

"This agreement will be signed in the near future and the two sides will exchange its documents as a symbol of their strategic and useful cooperation in maintaining regional stability and security," Mottaki said in a joint press conference with his Omani counterpart Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdallah here in Tehran today.

Also he referred to the intimate and brotherly relations between Tehran and Masqat, and stressed that the two sides share common views on different issues.

"Continued consultations between Iran and Oman, specially in the past 4 years, have created new capacities and possibilities for cooperation between the two countries on a daily basis," Mottaki added.

The minister underlined that the two states' identical views on a large number of regional and bilateral issues have paved the way for the two countries' good progress in economic cooperation, multilateral political and regional consultations and also security discussions.

Reminding the Omani companies' investments in a number of medium and small-size projects in Iran and Iranian companies' active presence and partnership in different projects in Oman, Mottaki said that the two sides have also agreed to facilitate such cooperation.