Greece calls for expansion of economic cooperation with Iran

Greek Development Minister Christos Folias called for expansion of economic cooperation with Iran.

In a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Athens Mehdi Honardoust, the Greek minister there are vast fields for cooperation between the two countries.

According to a press release from Iran's embassy in Athens on Monday, the two sides discussed bilateral ties, especially in economic field.

Folias called Iran as an old civilization with rich culture and expressed his country's readiness to promote ties in all economic fields with Iran.

Referring to the good political ties between Iran and Greece, the ambassador underlined vast grounds of cooperation between the two countries such as energy, industry, agriculture, tourism and shipping.

He added economic cooperation level is not adequate and called for promotion of cooperation in the economic and trade fields as well as exchanging commercial and trade delegations.

He described bilateral cooperation trend as 'positive'./end