Pyongyang, December 8 (KCNA) -- Iran turns against any forms of foreign military presence on the soil of its neighboring Afghanistan, the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said on Monday.

"Certain Western countries seek to extend their military presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 by maintaining their military bases there. We deem such an approach contradictory to the efforts toward sustaining stability and security in Afghanistan," Salehi said in a speech at the international conference on Afghanistan in the western German city of Bonn.

"We believe that any international or regional initiative to restore peace and security in Afghanistan could only be successful if they give up the presence of foreign military forces and especially, the founding of foreign military bases in Afghanistan," he said.