TEHRAN (Iran News) –Ambassador of Japan to Tehran Kazutoshi Aikawa in meeting with governor of Kerman Province Mr. Mohammad Mehdi Fadakar announced readiness of his country for restoring economic relation with Iran.

In the meeting, Mr. Aikawa said that it was his first visit to Kerman Province and thanked for great hospitality of the province, adding that his visit was aimed at studying the condition of foreign nationals and immigrants living in Kerman Province.

He added that over 1000 hygienic packages were to be distributed among the immigrants, and thanked officials of the province for cooperation for implementation of their program.

Aikawa went on to say that Japan is to have some programs in three drought provinces of Iran in collaboration with the international organizations, noting that to support the health of Iranian people, Japan donates 3 MRI machines that two of them will be donated to the towns of Kahnouj and Bam in Kerman Province.

He announced readiness to cooperate and support Afghan refugees in Iran who have problems and to this end, the embassy donates one ambulance adding that Japan had good cooperation with Iran during quake in the town of Bam and it had good cooperation in reconstruction of the town.

Aikawa further said people of Japan and Iran especially people of Kerman Province have many similarities but there is no drought in Japan and to this end, Japan is ready to help Kerman Province to fight against the drought.

He said that he saw a Chinese group of tourists in the hotel and reiterated that he would work for the presence of Japanese tourists in Kerman.  He noted that he would try to correct travel information to Kerman Province and called on Iran government to give Japan the information about the security in order to clear misunderstandings.

He said that during his stay in the province he was to visit Bam Citadel and Shahzadeh Garden of Mahan and would study the condition of the sites and security of them and will report it to his government to prepare the ground for the presence of Japanese tourists and expressed hope soon Japanese tourists would visit Kerman Province.

Aikawa went on to say that although Iran is under sanctions, some of Japanese companies are active in Iran and expressed hope the talks on renewal of the JCPOA would end successfully and the trade relation between Tehran and Tokyo would be restored. He reiterated that Japan has experienced many earthquakes and Iranian people and people of Kerman have had good cooperation in aiding japan.