Dr. Vaezi met the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of Russia

According to the Center for Public Relations and Information of the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Dr. Vaezi, after holding a joint meeting between First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Energy of the Russian delegation discussed before the reporters the related issues.  

Dr. Vaezi, in the meeting pointed the development of our relations with the countries of Eurasia and said:  today we had good meeting with Mr. Shuvalov, First Deputy Prime of Russia and the Minister of Energy and Eurasia and had a good opportunity to exchange views for preparing for further cooperation.

Regarding the results of the negotiations he said: two very important steps have been taken, the first is the primarily steps for nuclear plant in Bandar Abbas by Iran's Minister of Power and Energy Minister of Russia, which has been agreed previously and the other was important project in the past agreed on free trade agreement of Eurasia between Iran and the five countries and I the next week the finalization steps will be taken in this regards via a separate delegation from Iran to Russia which will create some important improvements in Iran and five countries of Eurasia specially the Russian federation.

Minister of Communications and IT, Referring to good relations between Iran and Russia said: from the last year fortunately, our trade relations have developed in a way that we had 80 percent growth in trade and a very successful economic commission held a over the last few months.

He also emphasized the bilateral relations in different sections such as insurance, banks and Customs and said: 29 cooperation documents were signed between Iran and Russia over the past two years and on the remaining documents, which are infrastructure documents, we had agreement with Mr. Shuvalov and to finalize them the negotiations have been taken.