During the visit of the Chairman of the People's Expediency Council of Turkmenistan, Iran's President said that his administration seeks to create and strengthen peace, stability and security in the region.

Iran PressIran News: Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, head of Turkmenistan's People's Expediency Council, arrived in Tehran on Tuesday at the head of a political and economic delegation.

Iran's President, Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, during the visit of the Chairman of the People's Expediency Council of Turkmenistan to the Islamic Republic of Iran, said that the relations between the two countries are based on deep cultural commonalities, adding: "Cooperation between Tehran and Ashgabat has enjoyed significant growth in the last two years, when the Islamic Republic of Iran government has been determined to strengthen neighbourly relations".

Raisi emphasized: "he policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the region is to create and strengthen peace, stability and security, and unlike the Westerners who claim to protect human rights, we are seriously and genuinely looking for human rights and we believe that the Westerners are not in the position of claiming such things".

Stating that there is no obstacle in the development of relations between the two countries, the President added, "The two countries have potentials to expand cooperation in the fields of energy, transportation, transit, customs, agriculture, science and technology".Referring to the problem of water scarcity as a common problem of the countries of the region, the President said, "If the countries of the region had constructive cooperation and interaction in this field, similar to the exemplary cooperation of Iran and Turkmenistan to manage the issue of shared waters by building a friendship dam, the problems in this field would be reduced".

The Chairman of the People's Expediency Council of Turkmenistan described increased joint cooperation in the fields of energy, rail and road transport, transit and customs affairs, electricity exchange and commercial, economic and industrial cooperation, medical and health affairs and cooperation between the two countries in the fields of water and agriculture as one of the most important capacities.

Reffering to interests of his country to expand cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran, he also noted: "The cooperation of the two countries in building the Friendship Dam will continue strongly as a model in the field of regional cooperation".