TEHRAN (ECOIDEAL)- Ukrainian Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan called on Iranian firms to help his country in road construction and share technical and engineering services with Ukraine.
"We need Iran's help in the infrastructure field to develop our roads," Omelyan said in a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Ukraine Mohammad Beheshti Monfared on Friday.
The Ukrainian minister pointed to his upcoming visit to Tehran to attend Iran-Ukraine joint transportation workgroup, and said, "Documents will be signed by both sides on transportation cooperation."
The Iranian ambassador, for his part, submitted a report on the latest progress in transportation cooperation between the two countries and signing documents in aviation, maritime and ports fields.
The two sides discussed holding the 7th Iran-Ukraine joint economic commission and the importance of giving momentum to cooperation in different fields.
In relevant remarks in August 2017, Beheshti Monfared announced that the value of trade exchanges between Tehran and Kiev has witnessed a 32 percent rise as compared with the previous year.
The Iranian ambassador to Ukraine pointed to track record of 25 years of relations between the two countries, and said that Iran-Ukraine relations have always been based on mutual respect and in the direction of national interests of the two countries.
The envoy reiterated that Ukraine may play an important role for Iran's entrance to green continent and Ukrainian officials have repeatedly underlined this issue.
He said that the recent visit of Ukraine's foreign minister to Iran was beginning of a new move and a turning-point in bilateral relations, specially in the fields of commerce and holding the 5th joint economic commission meeting after 12 years delay in Tehran.
The ambassador said that current trade exchange level between the two countries is not indicative of capabilities and possibilities of the two states in different fields, but the two countries are witnessing growing trend in this regard.
Source: Farsnews