In the meeting that was also attended by Mr. Hasan Sehat the honorable Cultural Councilor of the Islamic Republic of Iran To Bangladesh, Mr. Nafar first conveyed the greetings and the invitation of Dr. Seyyed Abbas Salehi the Iranian Minister of Culture to Mr. Khalid and then touched upon the manifold deep-rooted cultural, language and religious commonalities existing between Iran and Bangladesh. He also reiterated the need to renew the existing cultural agreement between the two sides as well as the necessity of incorporating a couple of more paragraphs into it to make it more comprehensive. Mr. Khalid welcomed the expansion of ties between the two brotherly and friendly nations of Iran and Bangladesh and promised that his colleagues would pursue the matter with utmost seriousness so that the new version of the said agreement will be signed soon.