TEHRAN (Iran News) –Iran seeks to expand cultural ties with China along with political cooperation, the Iranian culture minister said at a meeting with the Chinese vice minister of culture and tourism in Tehran on Saturday.
Calling the two countries “strategic partners,” Mohammad Mahdi Esmaeili said: “We believe that Iran’s membership in Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS and using the cultural capacities of the member countries can be the basis for holding cultural and artistic festivals”.
Inviting the China’s Minister of Culture and Tourism to visit Tehran, Esmaeili said: “We hope the trip will help deepen joint cultural and artistic activities,” ISNA reported on Sunday.
For his part, the Chinese official also expressed hope for the expansion of bilateral cultural and tourism collaboration and said: “China and Iran are two ancient civilizations with a long history of friendship, and cultural exchange is always important to both sides”.
Referring to the three consecutive Chinese Film Weeks in Iran in 2019, all well received by the Iranians, Lu Yingchuan said: “Holding such cultural and artistic events shows the depth of cultural relations between the two countries”.
He also invited the Iranian minister to visit China.
Yingchuan traveled to in Iran as the head of a delegation to participate in the second joint Iran-China Culture Committee.
- source : Tehrantimes
