TEHRAN -- Visiting Belgian Deputy Foreign Minister Annemie Neyts conferred on Sunday with Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on issues of mutual interests.

At the meeting, Neyts termed the existing level of mutual relations as 'satisfactory' and voiced her country's willingness to broaden the ties.

Supporting investors and holding commercial exhibitions can help expand and consolidate mutual cooperation, she said.

Referring to Tehran-Brussels ties during Belgium's chairmanship of the European Union, she said the period opened a new phase in expediting the growth in bilateral relations, IRNA reported.

Describing Iran's role in the region as very 'significant', she called for exchange of views on regional development mainly those in Afghanistan and the reconstruction of the war-stricken country.

Kharrazi, for his part, welcomed the expansion of contacts as well as upgrading level of mutual cooperation and said that the two countries enjoy very high potentials to foster mutual ties and hold regular and periodical meetings to forge greater understanding between the two countries.

He called for expansion of economic cooperation and removal of obstacles in the way of sound economic cooperation, and also underlined the important role of governmental and private sectors in broadening such ties.

Referring to the current developments in Afghanistan, he called for firm international determination to help accelerate the reconstruction process in the war-ravaged country.

Calling for political means to put an end to the Iraq crisis, he voiced the concern of Iran as well as other countries in the region about the dimensions of crisis in case of military attack to Iraq.

The Belgian deputy foreign minister, who is heading a delegation from European Parliament as well as Belgian officials, addressed a gathering at the Foreign Ministry's Institute of Political and International Studies on Saturday.