TEHRAN Yemeni Ambassador in Iran Abdullah Ali al-Razi here on Sunday conferred with Iran's Agricultural Jihad Minister Mahmoud Hojjati on the schedule for holding the 5th Iran-Yemen Joint Economic Commission meeting.

According to the Public Relations Department of the Agricultural Jihad Ministry, at the meeting the two sides agreed to hold the fifth session of the joint meeting by July 6 and studied the 18 memoranda of understanding signed in the fourth joint session.

The two sides also reviewed expansion of economic and commercial relations between Tehran and Sanaa.

Both sides expressed hope that the outcome of the upcoming joint commission session will be fruitful and lead to further expansion and consolidation of economic and commercial relations between Iran and Yemen.

(IRNA)