According to the report of public relations of IMIDRO, addressing 4th Europe-Iran forum in Zurich, Switzerland, Mehdi Karbasian stressed that Iran’s interactions with global society especially European countries has been developed since lifting the sanctions against Iran.
He declared that during President Rouhani’s travel to Italy and France, some contracts valued at $40billion were signed in different sectors such as mines and metals.
Karbasian noted the Iran and Europe relations before sanctions and said: “Europe was the biggest trade partner of Iran and now we are aimed to not only have a common relationship but also to broaden ties with European countries”.
He added that as one of the energy suppliers for European countries, we have rich oil and gas resources to increase export capacity to Europe which will lead to increase the guarantee of energy supply for Europe.
Karbasian said:”according to the Sixth Development Plan of Iran which started March 2017, there will be many cooperation and investment opportunities for European banks, investors, financial institutes, contractors and suppliers”.
Karbasian noted the Iran’s economic potentials in mines and metals sector and explained the latest information about Iran’s privatization and foreign investment attractiveness.
Europe-Iran forum has been established 4 years ago aimed to boost and support trade diplomacy of Iran and European countries.