TEHRAN – Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh said on Tuesday Iran is considering cooperation with Belarus in oil industry equipment manufacturing and also oil trade, IRNA reported.

The minister made the remarks after a meeting with Belarusian Industry Minister Vitaly M. Vovk in Tehran.
In the meeting Zanganeh voiced the country’s willingness for cooperation with the European country saying, “We are interested in cooperation in ways that guarantee the long-term interests of both sides,”
Vovk for his part expressed his country’s eagerness to cooperate with Iran in various areas including oil industry noting that “Belarus is ready to cooperate with Iran in a variety of areas especially oil refining and petrochemicals.”
During his visit Vovk has also held talks with his Iranian counterpart Mohammadreza Nematzadeh and also Iranian Vice President Es’haq Jahangiri.
The Belarusian minister also had a meeting with Ahmad Doust-Hosseini, chairman of the National Development Fund of Iran (NDFI), in which he called for NDFI’s support to Iranian contractors contributing to Belarus’s development projects.

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