BELGRADE (IRNA) -- Croatian President Stipe Mesic stressed expansion of Tehran-Zagreb relations in meeting in Zagreb with a visiting Iranian minister on Wednesday.

Speaking in a meeting with visiting Iranian Minister of roads and transportation Ahmad Khorram, Mesic said that the Croatian government and nation attach high importance to expansion of all-out ties with Iran.

He also invited his Iranian counterpart President Mohammad Khatami to pay a visit to Zagreb.

Khorram, for his part, said that the Islamic Republic welcomes promotion of economic and cultural bonds with Croatia.

The Iranian minister who is now in Croatia to attend the fourth Iran-Croatia joint economic commission meeting also conferred on Tuesday with Croatian Foreign Minister Tonino Picula on expansion of all-out relations between the two countries.

A number of agreements are to be signed in the fourth Iran-Croatia joint economic commission meeting.

The two sides are to cooperate on shipbuilding, port affairs, rail roads and customs.

Working groups of the joint economic meeting started their studies on Monday in Zagreb.