TEHRAN, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Iran and Turkey have agreed to expand their trade and banking cooperation, chief of staff of the Iranian president said on Wednesday.
Iran and Turkey have signed "very good" business cooperation documents, and they need to "develop their relations in the banking sector as soon as possible," said Mahmoud Vaezi.
During the 6th meeting of the Turkey-Iran High-Level Cooperation Council on Tuesday, "it is decided that the two countries give priority to purchasing each other's domestic products. It was also decided that Iran and Turkey talk about bartering goods," he noted.
"We discussed the formation of a joint committee to support Iranian and Turkish companies and mutual investments. We weighed in on rail and road transportation and transit," Vaezi said, adding that "we reached good agreements on cooperation at borders as well as increasing the number of trucks" permitted to cross the borders.
The officials of both countries have also discussed using electronic systems to speed up the procedures at their customs, and to implement preferential trade agreements, he pointed out.
The two neighbors, furthermore, reviewed their cooperation on energy fields as well as the exports of Iran's natural gas and petrochemical products to Turkey, he added.
On Tuesday, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said that Iran and Turkey as two big regional powers must expand their cooperation to defeat "foreign plots." Enditem
