TEHRAN - Iranian and Afghan diplomats in a meeting in Kabul on Monday discussed progress in preparing draft of a comprehensive cooperation pact between the two countries.

During the meeting in the Afghan capital today, Iranian Ambassador to Kabul Mohammad Reza Bahrami and Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Ershad Ahmadi also discussed the trend of a trilateral agreement which is due to be signed by Iran, Afghanistan and India soon.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai during his visit to Iran in December agreed to sign a comprehensive cooperation pact with his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani.

The pact will be for long-term political, security, economic and cultural cooperation, as well as restoration of regional peace and security.

"Afghanistan agreed on a long-term friendship and cooperation pact with Iran,” Karzai’s spokesman Aimal Faizi said at the time.

Meantime, Tehran, Kabul and New Delhi are due to sign a trilateral agreement soon which will pave the way for Afghanistan to reach out to India through Chabahar port in Southern Iran, a senior Afghan official announced on Saturday.

Afghan foreign ministry officials announced that a memorandum of understanding for the road transit of goods will be signed among Iran, India and Afghanistan in May.

"The draft of this MoU has been finalized and it will be signed by Afghanistan, Iran and India within a month," Afghan Foreign Ministry Spokesman Shakib Mostaghni said in his weekly press conference on Saturday.

Iran’s Chabahar Port, located 72 kilometers (44 miles) West of Pakistan’s Gwadar port, holds immense strategic and economic significance for India.

Late in November 2013, media reports said that India’s state-run Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust is sending a team to Iran to accelerate work on Chabahar Port with a view to facilitate New Delhi's access to Afghanistan and Central Asia. (FNA)