Iran and Türkiye are working laborious to succeed in a goal of $30 billion (TL 1.05 trillion) in bilateral commerce, Trade Minister Ömer Bolat mentioned Wednesday.
After assembly with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian as a part of his go to to the capital, Tehran, for the twenty ninth Meeting of the Türkiye-Iran Joint Economic Cooperation Commission, Bolat mentioned Türkiye desires to resume its power settlement with Iran, based on a press release launched by the Iranian Presidency.
Bolat identified that they’d modernize the border gates to facilitate the frequent customs commerce between the 2 nations. “We are trying to open two more border gates with Iran,” he mentioned.
“We are also trying to strengthen border crossings and markets between the two countries,” he added.
Bolat famous that additionally they wish to revive the preferential commerce settlement signed with Iran in 2015 and implement a complete settlement on tourism.
Pezeshkian mentioned he has all the time emphasised the need and significance of strengthening relations between Islamic nations and that they mentioned this of their conferences with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
“We should solve the problems among us in a brotherly manner and strengthen the power of the Islamic world in a practical way,” he mentioned, including that Islamic nations would profit from sharing their capacities with one another, from commerce markets to transportation routes and different potentials.
“In recent years, Türkiye-Iran relations have become multidimensional and comprehensive under the High-Level Cooperation Council, which meets under the leadership of the Presidents of both countries, and they continue to strengthen in the economic and commercial fields,” Bolat mentioned in a separate assertion on X on Thursday.
He reiterated that they had been acquired by Pezeshkian in Tehran, the place they attended the twenty ninth Türkiye-Iran Joint Economic Commission assembly.
“As Türkiye, we attach great importance to diversifying areas of cooperation for our bilateral trade volume to reach the $30 billion target. In this context, we brought up the development of border trade centers and the opening of new border gates at the meeting,” he added.
He additionally famous earlier on X that inside the scope of the discussion board, “opportunities for cooperation in various areas such as trade, customs, investments, finance, transportation, energy, health, agriculture, environment and urbanization, tourism and sports were discussed, and the steps that our business worlds could take jointly in these areas were evaluated.”
“As we emphasized at the meeting, Türkiye and Iran have the opportunity to reach a bilateral trade volume of $30 billion with determined steps they will take,” Bolat mentioned.
Source: www.dailysabah.com