Monday, 13 December 2021 (YJC)_ The Foreign Minister said that foreign trade, especially in border areas, is not at the level of the Islamic Republic and the second step of the revolution, adding that the Foreign Ministry is ready to help the Interior Ministry and governors to remove obstacles.
On the second day of the meeting of the heads of delegations of the Islamic Republic of Iran in neighboring countries, the Minister of Interior, along with 17 border governors, as well as the Secretary of the Supreme Council of Free Economic Zones and the Chairman of the Parliamentary Councils and Internal Affairs Commission, expressed their views They raised the neighbor.
At the meeting, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also outlined the 13th government's foreign policy program to activate relations with neighbors and develop trade and tourism.
The head of the diplomatic service stated:
That the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has offices in 29 of the 31 provinces of the country, whose duties in the past were mostly devoted to consular affairs, but now the predominant approach of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its offices in the provinces is economic; As more than 40% of the topics of the seminar of the ambassadors of neighboring countries are related to economic issues.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of our country, noting that, unfortunately, foreign trade, especially in border areas, is not at the level of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the second step of the Islamic Revolution, announced:
In the approach of economic diplomacy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is fully prepared to assist the Ministry of Interior and the governors in removing obstacles.