Iran Stresses Promoting Banking, Monetary Ties with Pakistan, Sri Lanka

Speaking in separate meetings with the governors of the central banks of Pakistan and Sri Lanka on the sidelines of the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Group (WBG) in Morocco on Friday, Mohammad Reza Farzin emphasized the need for developing bilateral and multilateral banking-monetary cooperation.

The growth of trade and economic cooperation with Pakistan and Sri Lanka has been put at the top of the agenda of the CBI, Iran's top banker told his Pakistani counterpart Jameel Ahmad and Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Nandalal Weerasinghe.

The governor of the Central Bank of Pakistan, for his part, said that his country eyes expanding trade exchanges along with the development of banking and financial relations between the two countries.

Sri Lankan top banker Weerasinghe also pointed to the increased trade-economic relations between Iran and Sri Lanka in recent years and added that his country sees no limitation for increasing monetary-banking cooperation with Iran.