TEHRAN -- Democratic Republic of Congo Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Leonard She Oki Tundu arrived in Tehran on Monday at the head of an official delegation and was welcomed at Tehran's airport by Iranian Foreign Ministry officials.

Upon his arrival, Tundu told reporters that his three-day stay in Iran is aimed at discussing with Iranian officials mutual expansion of ties especially in the economic field, IRNA reported.

Congo Presidential Advisor Juliana Lumumba, who is at the same time the director-general of the Congo Foreign Ministry's Middle East Department, is accompanying the minister.

Tundu is scheduled to meet with some Iranian ministers including Iran's foreign minister, minister of health, treatment, and medical training and minister of commerce.