Ahmadian left Tehran for St. Petersburg on Tuesday morning at the invitation of his Russian counterpart.
He is going to attend the meeting of the BRICS and BRICS Plus high-ranking officials responsible for security matters and national security advisers, to be held at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library of St. Petersburg on September 10-12.
Ahmadian will also hold meetings with his foreign counterparts on the sidelines of the event.
He is expected to hold talks with senior Russian officials to discuss the bilateral, regional and international developments in the political, economic and security fields and expound on Iran’s views about regional corridors and the energy sector, among other things.