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Saturday, December 02, 2023 22:48 GMT
The head of the Trade Promotion Organization of Iran (TPOI) said that his organization will send a commercial envoy to Turkmenistan to bolster bilateral ties in the fields of trade and economy. Mehdi Zeyghami said that a comprehensive cooperation document will be formulated between the two countries in various fields.Speaking in an interview with IRNA, he pointed to the organizing of the 17th edition of the Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic Cooperation Commission in Ashgabat and said Iran will send a commercial envoy to the Central Asian country within the next four months.Zeyghami put the volume of trade exchanges between Iran and Turkmenistan in 2022 at US$500 million, stating that the two countries enjoy the potential to enhance the volume of trade exchanges. The TPOI chief further pointed out that Turkmenistan is interested in participating in Iran's specialized exhibitions and added that the two countries have established fair interactions in the field of construction materials and technical engineering services.The 17th edition of the Iran-Turkmenistan Joint Economic Cooperation Commission was held in Ashgabat on November 17-18 during which the two countries inked several cooperation documents, valued at about US$1 billion. - Tasnim