TEHRAN – Iranian and Bulgarian officials held in meeting in Tehran on Tuesday, discussing ways to boost bilateral cooperation on environmental issues.

The Bulgarian ambassador to Iran Christo Polendakov and the Iranian deputy environment chief for international affairs Nasser Moqaddasi exchanged views on greenhouse gas emissions, water-related technologies, deforestation, and climate change, among others, IRNA reported.

They also touched on the main topics of the next United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 24) which is expected to be held on December 3-14, 2018 in Katowice, Poland.

The ambassador expressed European Union’s readiness to boost environmental cooperation with Iran.

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