TEHRAN (Iran News) –Deputy Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Hossein Salahvarzi in meeting with Ambassador of Hungary to Tehran Mr. Zoltan Varga Haszonits welcomed bilateral talks and emphasized these talks should be focused, presuming the sanctions will remain, on finding new ways for financial and trade exchanges like barter and using crypto currencies.
Chambers of commerce of Kerman Province of Iran and Budapest signed a MoU on cooperation in the presence of Mr. Salahvarzi and Haszonits.
During the ceremony, Salahvarzi pointed to the long political, cultural and economic ties of Iran and Hungary and said that although due to the sanctions these relations have become colorless, he hopes with the diplomatic efforts once again political, cultural and especially economic relations of Iran and Hungary would improve.
He reiterated that ICCIMA and private sector does its efforts to materialize setting target for economic relations of the two countries during the third joint economic commission, adding that he hopes in the upcoming months, along with exchange of trade delegations and in collaboration with Budapest Chamber of Commerce, both sides would find ways for resolving banking exchanges in line with broadening bilateral trade. He added that he is sure that efforts of Embassy of Hungary in Tehran would be effective in this regard.
Salahvarzi went on to say that Kerman Province accounts for some 4% of national GDP and there are good capacities in this province in the fields of agriculture, mining, energy production especially clean energies.
Then Hungarian Ambassador Haszonits, for his part, emphasized efforts for increasing the level of trade cooperation between the two states, adding that although industry, agriculture and clean energies are good fields for broadening economic cooperation between Iran and Hungary, there are some restrictions in this regard.
He noted that restrictions are not limited only to banking relation, adding that restrictions related to the FATF are also very effective, stressing that despite all these restrictions, now it is good opportunity for talks to find solutions for this issue.
Then Salahvarzi emphasized that economic activists in the private sector are trying to find ways for sanctions and the FATF in order to remain in the international production value chain, noting that despite these problems, during the years experiences and different solutions for facing these conditions have been tested. He said that Iranian traders have used barter trade and using crypto currencies to overcome the problems.
He said that all talks should be based on this point that sanctions are not removed and both sides should find ways for boosting trade under the current sanctions condition.
Meanwhile in the ceremony, Head of Kerman Chamber of Commerce enumerated the number of exporting items of Kerman Province like pistachio, dates, rose, fruits and greenhouse products and said that Kerman has great potentials in the field of energy production especially solar energy production and clean energies that both sides can cooperate in this field.
