TEHRAN (IRNA) -- Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel said on Tuesday that the first gas pipeline to transfer gas from Iran to Armenia is scheduled to become operational in the coming months.

A report released by Majlis Media Department said that the speaker made the remark while speaking to reporters at a joint press conference with his Armenian counterpart Tigran Torossian.

Addressing reporters, Haddad-Adel said that the progress of the gas project is supervised by the presidents of Iran and Armenia.

Haddad-Adel said that feasibility studies on the second gas pipeline is currently underway.

He referred to projects on transfer of energy, development and port of industrial machinery as strategies aiming to boost trade exchanges between the two states and urged that tourism and investment by private sector should also be facilitated.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the speaker said that establishment of relations with the Central Asian states and Caucasia has been on the agenda of Iran's foreign policy over the past 15 years. "Meanwhile, Iran-Armenia ties have been quite favorable on account of the good bonds between Iranian Muslims and Armenian minority," he said.

Turning to the history of the presence of Armenians in Iran, he said that they contribute to the construction and development of Iran along with their Muslim countrymen. For his part, the chairman of Armenia's National Assembly pointed to Iran's nuclear issue and the relevant developments in the region and said, "All countries should benefit from equal conditions to access nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. No country should abuse its facilities to restrict other states."

Torossian stated that the terms and conditions of international treaties should be implemented equally for all world countries.

Besides, he referred to Iran-Armenia commonalties and called for expansion of cooperation between the two states.