Tehran(IP) - The Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Markus Leitner announced the launch of the Swiss Financial Mechanism within the next two to three weeks, saying that 180,000 packages of medicines needed for transplant patients arrived in Tehran on Sunday.

Iran PressIran news: The Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Markus Leitner at a news conference on Sunday at the Swiss embassy in Tehran said that the aim of the Swiss humanitarian trade mechanism is to ensure that exporters and companies based in Switzerland with branches in the country can have a secure financial channel for the pharmaceutical field and medicine with the help of the country's central bank and be able to continue exporting to Iran.

The Swiss ambassador to Tehran added: "Creating this channel will have an important contribution to the provision of pharmaceuticals and foodstuffs that are fully in line with Swiss humanitarian tradition. Of course, this channel is not only humanitarian but can also bear a political signal and message," Iran Press reported.

He also said that we have been able to create this financial channel to provide humanitarian items to Iranian patients and consumers.

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