TEHRAN- Iranian Minister of Agriculture said: “Iran is ready to cooperate with Afghanistan in the fields of mechanization, livestock husbandry, agriculture, plant breeding, and livestock breeding.”
According to the portal of the Ministry of Agriculture, Gholamreza Nouri, on the evening of November 14, in a meeting with Mawlawi Mohammad Hassan Akhund, Afghanistan’s Minister of Finance and head of the Afghan side of the two countries’ Joint Economic Cooperation Committee, referred to Iran’s transit capacities and said: “Iran’s capacities for Afghanistan’s access to the Persian Gulf and open waters can serve the development of trade between the two countries.”
Referring to the transfer of part of Afghanistan’s goods to neighboring countries through Iran, he added: “These exchanges can increase. Capable investors are present in Afghanistan and can invest, especially in the Chabahar region, to establish terminals and port facilities so that the volume of Afghanistan’s commercial exchanges with the world in the fields of imports and exports increases.”
The Minister of Agriculture, emphasizing the necessity of strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries, said: “In the government, a special working group on relations with Afghanistan has been formed under the chairmanship of the First Vice President, and a number of relevant ministers are also members of it.
