Damascus-SANA
Iranian Minister of Roads and Cities Building Mohammad Eslami, Chairman of the Iranian-Syrian Joint Economic Committee, and Minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Talal al-Barazi discussed the existing economic cooperation and trade exchange relations between the two countries and ways to develop, strengthen and upgrade them in the face of the coercive economic measures imposed on the two countries.
The talks also dealt with the importance of the agreements signed between the two sides, their concrete translation on the ground, and the creation of new conditions that ensure moving forward to establish joint projects in Syria that contribute to providing job opportunities, achieving additional resources, and improving the economic and productive reality.
Minister Islami pointed to the importance of activating the principle of bartering goods to facilitate the movement of exchange of goods between the two countries and the establishment of factories for the automobile industry in Syria and the production of mineral water and car batteries.
In turn, the Brazilian Minister stressed the importance of increasing trade exchanges, working to secure the needs of the two countries' markets, and continuing to implement what was agreed upon with the Iranian side, especially with regard to the work of the Ministry of Internal Trade, and taking new steps that serve the process of joint work.
The two ministers listened to an explanation given by the Director General of the Syrian Trade Establishment, Ahmed Najm, about the efforts made to establish a joint Syrian-Iranian trading company between the Syrian Trade and the Iranian Etka Corporation to exchange products and establish a commercial center in Damascus to display Iranian products and a center for Syrian products in Tehran and the latest cooperation reached In the areas of marketing Iranian products in Syria and Syrian products in Iran.
Yesterday, Minister Islami began a visit to Syria at the head of an Iranian government and economic delegation that will last for several days, during which he will discuss with a number of officials and stakeholders the strengthening of relations between the two countries in the construction, investment and trade sectors.
Mahmoud Mohammed
