"Balkan region is important and Iran should have active and serious presence in the countries located in that region," Boroujerdi said.
The senior lawmaker underlined that expanding relations with Serbia and Bosnia is vey important for Iran.
"The visits by senior officials, including Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, are on the agenda," Boroujerdi added.
In relevant remarks on Saturday, Boroujerdi voiced his satisfaction in the status quo of Tehran-Sarajevo relations.
"Bilateral relations in political, economic and cultural fields between the two countries date back to 25 years ago," Boroujerdi said in a meeting with senior Bosnian officials in Sarajevo.
Boroujerdi said that Iran was by the side of the Bosnian nation and government in their most difficult times of the war in 1990s and never withheld any contribution to help establish peace and stability in that country.
During the meeting, both sides underlined the need for strengthening parliamentary relations and exchanged views on the performance of the commissions and encountering defense and security issues.
Boroujerdi also conferred with Head of the House of Peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina Barisa Colak.
Colak contended that exchange of visits between high-ranking officials of the two countries will pave the ground for broadening of bilateral ties.
An Iranian parliamentary delegation, headed by Boroujerdi, has embarked on a visit to Balkan last Tuesday.
In late February, Bosnian Minister of Civil Affairs Adil Osmanović in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Bosnia Mahmoud Heidari in Sarajevo called for broadening of mutual cooperation with Iran in different areas.
“The Bosnian ministry of civil affairs is ready to take advantage of all opportunities and capacities to develop all-out relations with Iran in areas of science, culture, art, and sports,” Osmanović said.
The Iranian ambassador, for his part, pointed to the visits made by the two countries' officials to each other's capitals, and said that the way Iranian fairs in Bosnia and Herzegovina were dealt with by Bosnian people proved the depth of cultural commonalities between the two nations.
Heidari voiced Iran’s readiness for re-establishing the programs of cultural interactions between the two countries, and underlined the need for bolstering process academic cooperation between the two countries, specially in the areas of modern technologies.
