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Tajikistan willing to expand economic ties with Iran
TEHRAN, Jan. 31 (MNA) -- The Republic of Tajikistan’s Minister of Economy and Trade Farrukh Hamraliev on Saturday spoke of Dushanbe's willingness to boost economic ties with Tehran.
"Although the two countries have high potentials to expand economic relations, but the current level of trades between the two sides is not satisfactory,” Hamraliev told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in Dushanbe.
Calling Iran the 3rd-largest trade partner of Tajikistan after Russia and china, Hamraliev said, trade with Tehran accounted for almost four percent of Tajikistan’s total trade last year.
Trade between Iran and Tajikistan stood at $250 million in 2009, up 60 percent year on year.
Tehran and Dushanbe signed five memorandums of understanding and a joint statement in Dushanbe early January to expand bilateral ties.
The MOUs were signed by energy, oil, and foreign affairs ministers of the two countries with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon in attendance.
Speeding up the construction of Esteqlal tunnel and Sangtudeh 2 dam and power plant, cooperation in water, energy and geology, and the extradition of legal offenders were the main topic of the bilateral agreements.
The two sides also issued a joint statement in 11 articles to broaden all-out relations.
"Although the two countries have high potentials to expand economic relations, but the current level of trades between the two sides is not satisfactory,” Hamraliev told the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting in Dushanbe.
Calling Iran the 3rd-largest trade partner of Tajikistan after Russia and china, Hamraliev said, trade with Tehran accounted for almost four percent of Tajikistan’s total trade last year.
Trade between Iran and Tajikistan stood at $250 million in 2009, up 60 percent year on year.
Tehran and Dushanbe signed five memorandums of understanding and a joint statement in Dushanbe early January to expand bilateral ties.
The MOUs were signed by energy, oil, and foreign affairs ministers of the two countries with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Tajik counterpart Emomali Rahmon in attendance.
Speeding up the construction of Esteqlal tunnel and Sangtudeh 2 dam and power plant, cooperation in water, energy and geology, and the extradition of legal offenders were the main topic of the bilateral agreements.
The two sides also issued a joint statement in 11 articles to broaden all-out relations.
