Iranian Envoy Urges Further Efforts to Boost Trade Ties with Serbia
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Ambassador to Serbia Majid Fahimpour underlined that the year 2015 is an important year for further economic cooperation between Tehran and Belgrade.
The Iranian and Serbian economies complete each other and, accordingly, the two countries can have good cooperation, the Iranian ambassador said in an interview with the Serbian state news agency Tanjug.
He added that Serbia is located in a fertile region with high precipitation, and the Iranian market would be very interesting in terms of exports of Serbian agricultural products.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Fahimpour pointed to his meeting with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic last month, and said they concluded that actions should speak louder than words in 2015 and that the economic cooperation should be boosted, including by exchanging a large number of reciprocal visits by the two countries’ officials.
For the first time ever, Iran had a booth at last year’s International Fair of Tourism in Belgrade and will also showcase its tourism supply at this year’s fair, which opened on Thursday.
Serbian tour operators are very interested in Iran, Fahimpour said.
The economic cooperation between Iran and Serbia is dominated by light industry, auto parts, agriculture and, more recently, tourism, while cultural cooperation is on a traditionally high level, according to Tanjug.
The Iranian ambassador said that Serbian athletes and coaches are welcome in Iran and that they deserve much credit for the progress and development of sport in his country.