Iran, Armenia Discuss Enhancing Bilateral Trade to $3 Billion


TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Officials from Iran and Armenia emphasized enhancing bilateral trade to $3 billion and also the completion of the construction operation of the International north-South Transport Corridor (INSTC).

In a meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Yerevan on Tuesday, Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mehrdad Bazrpash stressed the need to increase mutual trade.

During the meeting, the two sides underlined the completion of the construction operation of the INSTC.

Spread of peace in the Caucasus region is the main desire of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Bazrpash stated, adding that supporting the territorial integrity of Armenia has been a main policy of Iran.

Iran attaches great importance to enhancing its relations with neighbors as a main strategy of the country, the roads minister emphasized.

Elsewhere in his remarks, he pointed to the heinous crimes committed by the Zionist regime’s forces in occupied Palestine and added that the brutality of the child-killing regime of Israel is not a new phenomenon, rather, it has been for years that the fake regime is killing innocent Palestinian people, especially women and children.

He called on the international community not to remain silent in the face of the brutalities of the Zionist regime.