Mousavi: The President’s visit to Pakistan and Sri Lanka was strategic

according to the foreign policy group Tasnim news agency, Seyed Referring to the visit of the high-ranking delegation of Iran to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Rasul Mousavi, Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and Director General of South Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, wrote in his official account on Program X: The visit of the high-ranking delegation to Pakistan and Sri Lanka is strategic at the current stage and for the future of bilateral relations. And regional developments are very important and decisive.

Syed Ibrahim Raisi, the president of our country, at the head of a high-ranking political delegation, traveled to Pakistan and Sri Lanka this week.

The high officials of the 13th government announced during the presidential election that they will pursue the revival of the neighborhood policy and the use of regional capacities, and they plan to strengthen relations with neighboring countries along with interaction with other countries of the world.

According to the announcement of the government officials, the statistics of Iran’s trade and economic exchanges with most of the countries in the region have grown significantly during this period, and in this field, there have been numerous agreements and cooperation documents by various officials in trips and Bilateral and multilateral meetings have been signed and are being followed up.

During Raisi’s trip to Pakistan, there are 8 documents with topics such as “creating free trade zones at common border crossings”. , “Cooperation in the broadcasting and media sector”, “Cooperation in the animal health sector”, “Security cooperation”, “Cooperation in the cooperation and social welfare sector”, “Cooperation in the standards sector” and “Cooperation in the legal sector and judicial assistance in matters “Civil and Commercial” was signed between the authorities of the two countries.

Also in Sri Lanka, the documents and memorandum of understanding of the high delegations of Iran and Sri Lanka in the fields of culture, cinema, tourism, science and technology It was signed by the parties in the presence of high-ranking officials of the two countries.

On Thursday, after returning from an official trip to Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the President talked about the results and achievements of this Safar said: “Decisions were made about cooperation in the field of energy and it was decided that these cooperations will continue strongly. Also, in the field of commercial and economic cooperation, with the agreement of the two countries, the volume of exchanges was set to reach 10 billion dollars in the first step.

The president stated that “in the meetings we had with Pakistani economic activists, they were determined to pursue the work in such a way that in a short time we reach the trade volume of 10 billion dollars.” : In the field of cultural work, good decisions were made due to cultural affinities and close and previous neighborly relations, and in general, what was necessary to be manifested between the two countries in the form of cooperation documents was done, also in the negotiations held with the high officials of the two states of Punjab and Sindh. Also, who have a lot of cultural and economic cooperation with Iran, it was agreed that the obstacles to the expansion of cooperation will be removed and the work will be pursued vigorously. Referring to the second part of his trip to Sri Lanka, Easi He noted: The first topic of the trip to Sri Lanka, which has good connections with us, was the opening of a large and multi-purpose hydroelectric project in this country, which was implemented by the Iranian company Farab with completely up-to-date, high-level and complex technology and significant scientific work. The operation of this dam was good news for the people of Sri Lanka, and it was decided to pursue the export of technical and engineering services from Iran to Sri Lanka.

The president reminded that “the Islamic Republic of Iran has good capacities in various fields, including the export of technical-engineering services, on the basis of which we can have good cooperation with neighboring and Asian countries.” It was this country about which good decisions were made. ; Consolidation of neighborhood policy