BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

24/04/2006

Commerce minister wraps up visit to Belarus

TEHRAN, Apr. 24 (MNA) -- Iran's Minister of Commerce Masud Mir-Kazemi - who headed a high-ranking delegation to Belarus - returned home on Monday.

In addition to visiting Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko, the Iranian minister and the accompanying delegation met with the East European nation's first deputy prime minister as well as the ministers of industries, commerce, health and a number of other officials. They discussed ways to improve and further expand the economic relations of the two countries.

During the visit, the officials from Iran and Belarus signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the exchange of technical and engineering services and products as well as the cultural and customs cooperation between the two friendly countries.

Following his tour of the assembly line of Belarus' major tractor manufacturing plant, the Iranian minister negotiated and agreed with the company's officials on the establishment of a tractor production plant in Iran. The line is slated to produce in Iran the tractors with horse powers in excess of 130, a report said here on Monday.

The official visit was made within the framework of the 7th Iran and Belarus Joint Economic Commission.

Source:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=316529