Iran Press/ Iran News: Congratulating the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the BSEC, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's Foreign Minister, pointed to the broad potential for cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the BSEC and explained Iran's capabilities in the fields of transit and energy.
The Iranian foreign minister referred to the international conference on "Iran and 30-year-old BSEC: Prospects for Cooperation," which will commence tomorrow in Tehran, and described the conference as an opportunity to identify the areas of Iran-BSEC cooperation.
He also pointed to the finalization of the agreement on the trans-regional Persian Gulf–Black Sea transport corridor and expressed hope that the document's signing and the implementation of that corridor would lay the ground for positive developments in trade and transit cooperation between the Islamic Republic and the BSEC.
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The BSEC Secretary-General Lazar Comanescu, for his part, expressed his appreciation to the Iranian foreign minister for the meeting and also for hosting the BSEC international conference in Tehran.
He described Iran as one of the most active "dialogue partners" for the BSEC and expressed that in the light of tomorrow's conference, the ground would be laid for broader and stronger cooperation.
He also presented a report on the BSEC activities in the past three decades and pointed to the adverse effects of the Ukraine crisis on the current BSEC activities.
Referring to Iran's efforts to end the conflict in Ukraine, the top Iranian diplomat reiterated Tehran's efforts and readiness to improve cooperation with the BSEC and wished success for the Tehran-hosted conference.
The Tehran International Conference dubbed "Iran & 30-year old BSEC: Prospects for Cooperation" was held on Monday, June 30, with the participation of the BSEC Secretary-General, ambassadors of the BSEC member states, the United Nations representatives, the ECO Secretary-General, and some senior Iranian managers at both public and private sectors will be held at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS) of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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