TEHRAN, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to depart on Monday evening for a two-day tour to Armenia and Belarus.

The announcement was made by Mehdi Sanaei, political advisor to Iran's president, in a post on the social media platform X.

Sanaei said improving bilateral relations with Armenia and Belarus, especially in the trade area, and signing cooperation documents would be on the president's agenda during the visits, adding that the trips had been scheduled for late June but were postponed.

Pezeshkian's visit to Armenia is expected to take place as Armenia and Azerbaijan, which had been at loggerheads over the mountainous Nagorno-Karabakh region since 1988, signed on Aug. 8 a peace agreement in Washington.

Included in the peace agreement is a deal to create a transit corridor across southern Armenia, with the project's exclusive development rights granted to the United States.

Iran has repeatedly voiced opposition to the transregional players' presence in the region and warned against any changes to the region's geopolitics and historical borders. Enditem