TEHRAN (IRNA) – In a meeting with French Ambassador to Tehran Bernard Poletti here on Sunday, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Subcommittee of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Mahmud Mohammadi, expressed his appreciation for the recent remarks of French President Jacques Chirac.

In his recent speech, President Chirac referred to Iran's special position and stabilizing role in the Middle East.

At the meeting, Mohammadi declared Iran's readiness to broaden its cooperation and relations with France at various levels, including in parliamentary field.

Meanwhile, he called for more active cooperation between the parliamentary friendship groups of the two sides.

Turning to the strategic and significant position of France among European countries and the positive history of cooperation between the two countries, he said that grounds are currently prepared for creation of new opportunities for closer collaboration in various domains.

For his part, Poletti expressed the will of his country to broaden its ties with Iran.

He declared the anxiety of French officials over the lengthy investigation process of the file of a French citizen who had trespassed Iran's waterways illegally and called on the Iranian judicial officials to treat the case with a humanitarian approach and grant him amnesty.