TEHRAN - The commercial envoy and second deputy of Thailand’s Embassy in Iran, Trirong Wan-Ar-ree, said his country is pursuing a visa waiver agreement between Tehran and Bangkok.

Speaking in a meeting with economic activists in Shiraz, Iran's southern province of Fars, he noted that the Thai Embassy in Iran is after developing and expanding trade and economic relations with the Islamic Republic and with its different provinces.

He emphasized that tourism is one of the sectors in which the Thai government has established good relations with Iranian provinces.

The commercial attaché of the Thai Embassy pointed to his country's need for Iranian high-quality products including steel, technical and engineering services, dairy industries and aquaculture products and said Iran has other economic advantages as well and so the embassy is after establishing economic ties with the different Iranian provinces, IRNA reported.

Back in January, the Ambassador of Thailand in Tehran Pichit Boonsud has said his country is eager to increase the level of trade relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Speaking in a meeting with the Head of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Hossein Selahvarzi on Monday, the Thai envoy said: “My mission’s priority is to find ways to increase the level of economic cooperation, especially between the private sectors of the two countries.”

Selahvarzi for his part said one of the main plans of the ICCIMA is to strengthen cooperation with the countries of East Asia and in this regard, the chamber has determined short-term and long-term objectives for the development of trade exchanges with the mentioned countries.

“We believe that if the private sectors of Iran and Thailand have more interaction, the volume of trade between the two countries will increase,” he added.

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