Examining the latest status of economic relations with Pakistan and Algeria

According to the foreign policy group Tasnim news agency, the 18th This year, the meeting of the Foreign Economic Relations Coordination Headquarters was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and chaired by Mehdi Safari, Deputy Minister of Economy of Foreign Affairs, with the agenda of “reviewing the latest economic/commercial relations with Pakistan and Algeria” and with the presence of representatives of relevant institutions. /p>

At the beginning of the meeting, Mehdi Safari, referring to the importance of Algeria in Africa and the very good working environment, considered cooperation with this country as one of the important priorities of the African sphere and added: focus on Creation of preferential tariffs, issuance of technical and engineering services, cooperation in the field of transportation and energy are among the areas of interest in the joint cooperation between the two countries, which can be operationalized with planning and coordination between the institutions.

Shoushtari continued, Director General of West Asia and North Africa of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, presenting a report on the latest state of relations with Algeria and referring to the history of joint cooperation between the two countries, said: “Fortunately, good cooperation documents have been signed between the two countries.” and currently we have 14 agreements and 25 memorandums of understanding with this country in various fields of banking, health, customs, industrial and commercial, preferential trade, technology, knowledge base, etc., which we must work on implementing.

In the second part of the meeting, which was devoted to examining the aspects of cooperation with Pakistan, the Deputy Minister of Economic Diplomacy, Foreign Minister of Relations with Friendly Countries and He described Pakistan as a strategic and very important neighbor and asked all the organizations active in the field of economic relations with Pakistan to make their best efforts to implement the projects under cooperation.

Then Syed Rasool Mousavi, Director General of South Asia of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while pointing to the positive and stable relations between Pakistan and Iran, added: Currently in 11 sectors and 88 issues Economically, there are joint cooperations with Pakistan, some of which need to be followed up and provision of infrastructure, including in the field of free trade, organizing and equipping markets and border crossings, selling gas and petroleum products, and operating the gas pipeline to this country.

Mousavi also expressed hope that by holding the 22nd joint commission between the two countries in the near future, the ground for cooperation in the areas agreed upon by the parties will be provided.

At the end, Mehdi Safari stressed on removing the obstacles in joint cooperation with neighbors and added: by holding technical and specialized meetings, detailed and professional planning and timing Adequately moved forward step by step to achieve the defined goals.

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