"After Turkey, the foreign minister will go to Libya to boost bilateral relations"

Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is to travel to Libya to boost ties with the country's new leaders following an international conference in Turkey Wednesday on Afghanistan.

"After Turkey, the foreign minister will go to Libya to boost bilateral relations," the Iranian government said in a statement on its website, giving no further details.

Salehi was invited to Libya in August by the country's National Transitional Council chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil, who was in turn invited to visit Tehran.