The eight MoUs were signed during the 14th Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation between Iran and Belarus in Tehran on Tuesday in the presence of Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Mohammad Shariatmadari and Belarus Minister of Industry Vitaly Vovk.
The MoUs call for cooperation in the fields of industry, car manufacturing, medicine, oil and gas, agriculture, and regional cooperation.
The two sides also reached agreement on production and exports of medicine, research cooperation between pharmaceutical companies, manufacture of 1,000 Dena and Dena+ vehicles and increasing the number to 5,000 in five years, joint production of electric buses, as well as manufacture of 3,000 trucks and CNG buses.
The most notable document signed during the session was a roadmap of cooperation between the two countries for 2018-2020 in various political, social, economic, banking agricultural, transport, cultural, health and tourism fields.
The Iranian minister also called for drawing up a roadmap for banking cooperation between Tehran and Minsk in the near future.
In a relevant development in November, Iranian Ambassador to Minsk Mostafa Oveysi and Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Belarus Andrei Dapkiunas in a meeting explored avenues for the further development of bilateral relations and mutual cooperation.
During the meeting in Minsk, the two officials also discussed regional and international developments, bilateral issues, including exchanging high-ranking delegations and holding meetings of joint commissions and cooperation in the international circles.
Dapkiunas, for his part, described regional situation as sensitive after waning of the danger of the ISIL terrorist group.
In the meeting, Oveysi said that following the collapse of the terrorist and Takfiri groups in the Middle-East, certain regional ambitious leaders are seeking to create tensions in the region to cover up their domestic crises.
Those countries raise allegations against Iran while they are bombing defenseless children and women of Yemen and pushing the country toward one of the huge humanitarian catastrophes through placing blockade on the impoverished nation, he said.
Source: Farsnews - Date: (24 January 2018)