TEHRAN – Iran’s newly-appointed consul-general in Lahore, Mehran Movahedfar, met Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian before heading to Pakistan.

The meeting took place on Saturday morning, according to the Iranian foreign ministry.

The new consul-general spoke with Amir Abdollahian about his working priorities.

In this meeting, the Iranian foreign minister emphasized the cultural and political commonalities of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the trend toward the development of bilateral cooperation in various fields. 

He also made recommendations regarding the all-round efforts of Iran’s diplomatic missions in Pakistan to expand cooperation between the two countries.

Movahedfar was previously the head of the Department of Systems and Cyberspace of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

On Friday, a meeting was held in Islamabad between Pakistan’s Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar and Iran’s Ambassador to Pakistan Mohammad-Ali Hosseini.

Emphasizing the high importance of his country's relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Pakistani minister said that Islamabad is ready to remove the obstacles in the way of increasing the volume of bilateral trade with Tehran.

Pakistan always considers its relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran very important. However, the volume of bilateral trade is not favorable and for this purpose Pakistan is ready to take any kind of measures to address the existing obstacles, the official stressed.

Senator Ishaq Dar emphasized that Pakistan is ready to take all possible measures to remove the bottlenecks in order to significantly increase the volume of bilateral trade between the two countries.

Appreciating the economic policies of the government of Pakistan, the Iranian ambassador for his part said, “The historical relations between the two neighbors and the strong cultural and political relations require that our commercial and economic cooperation be at better and stronger levels.”