The 16th edition of the Iran-Belarus Joint Economic Commission meeting was held at the venue of Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade in Tehran on Monday.
Co-chaired by Iran’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Mine Abbas Aliabadi and Minister of Industry of Belarus Rogozhnik Alexander Nikolaevich, the meeting was also attended by Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Belarus Ivan Smelgin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Belarus to Iran Dmitry Koltsov, Commercial Envoy of Belarus Embassy to Tehran Dennis Ozdorov, Head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran Mehdi Zeyghami, Deputy Minister of Industry for Equipment and Machinery Seued Mohammad Mousavi, and Deputy Minister of Industry for Transport Affairs Manouchehr Manteghi.
The two sides exchanged views on the expansion of trade and economic cooperation.
Developing cooperation in the field of exports, importing agricultural equipment and machinery, mineral equipment, medicines and medical equipment, and petrochemicals were of the most important topics discussed at the gathering.
At the end of the session, a memorandum of understanding was inked between Aliabadi and Nikolaevich for further expansion of bilateral cooperation.
