Iran Press/Iran News: Abdolghafor Lival made the remarks in his meeting with the Head of the Islamic Republic of Customs Administration [IRICA], Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi and announced the readiness of his country for developing and expanding trade, customs, and transit cooperation with the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We appreciate all Iranian officials and organizations which cooperated in shipments of Indian donations to Afghanistan via Chabahar Customs,” he stressed.
Lival expressed the readiness of his country for the implementation of joint projects and documents inked between customs offices of the two countries, as proposed by IRICA months ago, and added, “We strongly believe insignificance of this move and its role in strengthening and improving customs cooperation between the two countries.”
Regarding the activity of border markets between the two countries, he said “with the coordination made in this regard, existing problems will be removed.”
For his part, Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration [IRICA] Mehdi Mir-Ashrafi said: “the two countries of Iran and Afghanistan share more commonalities with each other and these commonalities will lead to an increase in the level of trade and transit of goods via Iran.”
Given the existence of necessary infrastructure in Chabahar Free Zone, the two countries can cooperate with each other in the field of transit of goods to India and vice versa, he emphasized.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Mir-Ashrafi pointed to the existing capacities in border customs between Iran and Afghanistan and added: “if under-construction roads in Afghanistan’s Farah province [bordering with Mahirud Customs] are completed rapidly, the bilateral trade exchange between the two countries will increase significantly.”
In recent weeks, two issues, including a car accident carrying Afghan refugees and illegal immigrants in Yazd province, as well as reports that Afghan migrants drowned in the border have strained bilateral relations of the two countries.
In this regards the Afghan cabinet held a meeting to review the problems of Afghan refugees in Iran, as well as how to send a government delegation to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Afghan presidential palace issued a statement Monday morning stating that the meeting was attended by vice presidents, national security advisers, and a number of other officials. Members of the government discussed the life of Afghan refugees in Iran and further strengthening and using new technology in the Afghan border force.
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