Today, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade of Tatarstan Albert Karimov had a meeting with Head of Centre for Contemporary Iran Studies Rajab Safarov. The event took place in the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade.
The meeting was attended by Commercial Attaché of the Iranian Embassy in Russia Farhad Parand, Financial Director of Parallax Dmitry Kuznetsov, Director of EU Majak Consulting Yevgeny Nazarov, Programme Director of the Russian-Iranian Council for Public Relations Andranik Derenikyan, and others.
Greeting the visitors, Minister Karimov said that he was glad to welcome guests in the Tatarstan Ministry of Industry and Trade and noted that over the past six months official delegations from Tatarstan and Iran exchanged mutual visits. In the coming month, delegations from the Razavi Khorasan Province and the East Azerbaijan Province are also expected.
Speaking about cooperation, Albert Karimov stressed that Tatarstan is prepared to cooperate with Iran in the field of petrochemicals and mechanical engineering. Later, the participants discussed trade and economic, scientific, and cultural relations between the Republic of Tatarstan and the Islamic Republic of Iran, the strategy of developing trade and economic relations between them, and the development of interregional ties within the context of the Russian-Iranian cooperation.