Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Iran said in peak of anti-Iran sanctions Tehran-Ashgabat trade volume
reached 5.5 billion dollars annually, but it is currently lower.
Ambassador Ahmed Kurbanov said on
Tuesday at the Governorate of Khorasan-e Razavi in a meeting with Governor General Ya"aqoub-Ali Nazari that after
the collapse of the former Soviet Union and Turkmenistan’s independence they realized that their country is a large
producer of natural cotton, but they have no industries to turn it into threads of textile.
He said that
the other point was that Turkmenistan had only that single product, and therefore started its economy from scratch,
and Iran, and especially Khorasan-e Razavi played a great role in that country’s economy.
The governor of
Khorasan-e Razavi, too, said in the meeting that neighbors have great rights and Iran and Turkmenistan, too, due to
their shared religions, and the glorious civilization of Grand Khorasan have much stronger
elations.
Nazari said that Iran was among the first countries that recognized Turkmenistan’s independence
31 years ago and congratulated it.
He said that the expansion of relations among neighboring countries
can be reached in peace and stability, which fortunately prevails along the two countries’ shared borders, adding
that the province has mining, agricultural and foodstuff industries, at the service of Iran’s good neighbor,
Turkmenistan.
Source: IRNA - Date: (Aug 31, 2022)