TEHRAN -- Afghan Minister of State for National Security Zalmay Rasoul conferred here on Sunday with Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi on issues of mutual interests.

At the meeting, Zalmay Rasoul lauded Iran's aid and support for the Afghan people and government and called for expansion of wider cooperation in anti-drug campaign.

According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, Rasoul also called Iran's efforts for reconstruction of the war-shattered country as very "remarkable".

The Afghan government is fully determined to uproot poppy cultivation, trafficking of narcotic drugs and the phenomenon of while looking forward to international assistance in fulfilling such a significant task, he said.

The Iranian foreign minister, for his part, said that the Islamic Republic of Iran pursues the restoration of security in Afghanistan as top priority part of its foreign policies and underlined that Iran's support for the Afghan people and its government in reconstructing the country would not only help restore peace and stability but also would help establish security along joint borders.

Calling the measures conducted by some world countries in the campaign against drug-trafficking as 'insufficient', he said by the time the wide spread cultivation as long as poppy seeds are cultivated in Afghanistan, no one can hope for eradication of terrorism in that country.

Highlighting Iran's role in reconstructing Afghanistan, Kharrazi said implementation of pilot projects in agricultural sector could be extended to other parts of the country in case they prove successful, he concluded.

Meanwhile, Deputy Judiciary Chief Mohammad-Javad Larijani told Afghan National Security Advisor for International Affairs Zalmay Rasoul here on Sunday that Iran favors a peaceful, stable and developed Afghanistan and welcomes end of war in the country.

Larijani said Tehran is still a sincere friend and a helping hand to its neighbor, Afghanistan, and it stood by the Afghan nation in all dark and gloomy years of Afghanistan's military occupation (in 1980s).

Rasoul gave a first hand report on progress in his country's reconstruction projects and efforts made to guarantee security of common border lines.

Iran has already unveiled plans for Afghan reconstruction and provided credits to finance the Afghan development projects, reported IRNA.

In Tokyo Conference in December 2001, Iran pledged U.S.$560 million in credit through Iranian executive firms to rebuild Afghan infrastructure.