TEHRAN – A senior Foreign Ministry official has announced that Iran is fully ready to help the Venezuelan government to improve its situation, IRNA reported on Friday.

“The government and the private sector of the Islamic Republic of Iran are quite ready for assisting the Venezuelan people and government to improve their current conditions,” Mohammad Keshavarz Zadeh said in a meeting with Wilmar Soteldo, the Venezuelan vice president for economy.

During the meeting, the two sides agreed to prepare a “roadmap” for improvement of Iran-Venezuela economic cooperation until the next joint economic cooperation commission which is expected to be held in Tehran in near future.

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