Iran, Indonesia Underline Expansion of Trade Ties
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht conferred with a number of Indonesian high-ranking officials on the promotion of mutual cooperation.
The Iranian vice-president is in Indonesia to attend a meeting of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Nobakht on Thursday held separate meetings with Indonesian Minister of Commerce Bambang Brodjonegoro, Coordinating Minister for the Economy Sofyan Djalil, and Minister of National Development Planning Agency Andrinof Chaniago in Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia.
During the meetings, which were also attended by Iran’s Ambassador to Jakarta Valiollah Mohammadi, Nobakht briefed the Indonesian officials on Iran’s economic capabilities and its development in the fields of nuclear and aerospace technologies.
He also expressed Iran’s willingness to expand its cooperation with Indonesia, especially in the fields of infrastructure, export and import of products between the two countries, energy, construction of plants, refineries, and highways, and tourism industry.
Indonesian economic officials, for their part, welcomed the reinforcement of economic and trade cooperation with Iran, and hailed Tehran’s trend of development in recent years.
Indonesian ministers further emphasized the expansion of economic interactions between high-ranking officials of the two countries, and expressed their support for exchange of public and private economic delegations.
Earlier on Wednesday, Nobakht had also held a meeting with his Indonesian counterpart Jusuf Kalla, during which the Indonesian side had noted that Iran enjoys an enormous capacity in the area of energy and that expansion of cooperation would benefit both sides.
Last week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo, in a meeting in Jakarta, underlined the need for further efforts to boost bilateral relations between the two Muslim countries in diverse areas.
In his remarks, president Rouhani pointed to the importance of closer cooperation between Tehran and Jakarta in the area of economy, and said the joint economic commission of the two countries should work more actively.
