TEHRAN -- Austrian National Assembly President Heinz Fischer stressed the need to improve Tehran-Vienna relations.

His remarks were made at a meeting in Vienna with Iranian Ambassador to Vienna Ebrahim Rahimpour on Friday.

Fischer said that mutual cooperation, including parliamentary cooperation, is a basic step toward expanding political and economic relations among countries in the field of international law.

He further said that Austrian officials are eager to develop and improve Austria's relations with Iran.

Ebrahimpour, further in the meeting, said that he believes political, economic and cultural relations between Iran and Austria have a good future, and that the countries' bilateral parliamentary relations will contribute much toward this end.