MOSCOW (IRNA) -- Iran's Ambassador to Kiev Musa Kazemi conferred on Thursday with Ukraine's Deputy Foreign Minister Yuriy Kostenko on issues of mutual interests.

According to Iran's embassy in Kiev, at the meeting, the two sides reviewed issues concerning expansion of mutual economic and commercial cooperation as well as designation of Iran as the observer at the organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
In the meeting, the Iranian ambassador also submitted to the Ukrainian deputy foreign minister a written message from his Iranian counterpart Manuchehr Mottaki for his Ukrainian counterpart Arseniy Yatsenyuk.
The organization of Black Sea Economic Cooperation was established in 1992 with the aim of expanding mutual and multilateral economic cooperation among member states.
Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Albania, Armenia, Serbia, Moldava, and Romania are members of the BSEC.