TEHRAN- “Slovenian administration will encourage the country’s investors to expand their activities in Iran and will support their investments in the Islamic Republic,” the Slovenian President Borut Pahor announced during Iran-Slovenia Business Forum held in the building of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) in Tehran on Tuesday.

“We vow to increase bilateral economic trade with Iran to its previous level before 2011,” IRIB news quoted the Slovenia president. 

The Iranian Energy minister Hamid Chitchian, who also made remarks during the meeting as the Iranian head of Iran-Slovenia Joint Committee, admitted that Iran supports economic cooperation with Slovenia as well as the two countries’ economic activities in a third country.

He named auto making industry and heavy machinery, hydroelectric turbines, renewable energies, and financial and banking as the possible fields for the two sides to expand their collaboration.

As reported, Gholam-Hossein Shafei, the head of ICCIMA, also attended the mentioned business forum.

Accompanied by a 50-member trade delegation, Pahor arrived in Tehran on Tuesday to meet Iranian entrepreneurs and businessmen in ICCIMA to confer possible avenues to expand Ljubljana-Tehran economic and commercial ties.

Iran and Slovenia signed three memoranda of understanding to expand cooperation in the areas of economy, telecommunication, and nanotechnology after Pahor’s meeting with the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. 

Slovenia reopened it embassy in Tehran on Wednesday.
 

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