TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami arrived in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on Tue. at the head of a high-ranking economic delegation for participating in the 15th Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic Commission. According to the scheduled program, Eslami will meet and hold talks with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, minister of […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami arrived in Turkmenistan’s capital Ashgabat on Tue. at the head of a high-ranking economic delegation for participating in the 15th Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic Commission.
According to the scheduled program, Eslami will meet and hold talks with Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, minister of industry, communications and transport and also the host country’s industrialists.
In an expert-level meeting held previously in Ashgabat, the two sides agreed to expand the volume of their economic and political ties.
On the sidelines of the Commission, a 70-member delegation, comprised of businesspersons from Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA), will follow up on expansion of economic relations with Turkmenistan’s private sector.
The Iranian Roads Minister Eslami is accompanied by a number of members of the Parliament, Deputy Oil Ministry for Intl. Affairs Amir Zamaninia, Vice Chairman of ICCIMA Hossein Salahvarzi and Deputy Ministry of Roads Shahram Adamnejad.
Earlier the two countries have been discussing rail road issues. The Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway and the Uzbekistan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Oman corridor are intended to contribute to increasing trade and economic cooperation between Central Asian and Middle Eastern states. In addition to gas pipelines running along the borders between Iran and Turkmenistan, the Dostluk (“friendship”) dam was built thanks to the joint efforts of both sides.
- source : MNA, Irannews
