29 Mar 2024
Friday 5 February 2016 - 23:12
Story Code : 200375

Post-sanctions atmosphere great for Iran, region, world

Beijing, Feb 5, IRNA Minister of economy in a meeting with 100s of Japanese economic activists talked on Iran's high economic potentials said that post-sanctions era provides great opportunities for foreign investors, industrialists' cooperation, the region and the world.


Ali Tayyebnia who was speaking with a group of more than 300 economic activists in Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO) said that the termination of economic sanctions not only provides great economic opportunities for Iran, but also opens the gates of the Iranian economy towards the international society and even provides appropriate opportunities for resolving the regional world problems.

'Iran's economic growth with its more than 80-million-strong population and a large and virgin market with numerous and diversified resources will not only lead to the blossoming of the Iranian economy and its economic partners and investors, but also to the deepening and broadening of interactions and establishment of other blossoming economies in the region, restoration of peace and political and social stability in the region,' he added.

The Iranian economy minister and Japan's foreign minister had hours ago on Friday evening in an official ceremony signed the Japan-Iran Investment Agreement.

The agreement reiterates both governments' agreement to support each other's investments in the other country.

Foreign Minister Kishida in the ceremony on the occasion referred to his recent visit of Iran at the top of an economic delegation in fall season, arguing: Ever since the implementation of the JCPOA a serious will to strengthen economic ties with Iran has emerged in Japan.

'That is because Iran has high economic potentials and I hope this Japan-Iran Investment Agreement will lead to ever more strengthening of bilateral ties,' he added.

The Iranian economy minister referred to the positive background of Tehran-Tokyo relations, arguing: There are no black points in Iran-Japan relations and the two countries' capabilities and potentials have paved the path for the smooth progress of our relations.

'We are hopeful that the termination of the anti-Iranian sanctions has provided the ideal opportunity for expansion of relations to secure both nations' interests,' he said.

'The agreement signed by the countries today can play an important role in that respect. In the past there were two agreements signed between Iran and Japan and this Japan-Iran Investment Agreement, the third between the two countries, is the first economic agreement between Iran and Japan ever since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran,' added Ali Tayyebnia.

He said that all the rights of the Japanese investors in Iran will in accordance with this agreement be safeguarded by the Iranian government and even the non-commercial threats that might emerge against the foreign investors are covered in this agreement, adding that the same is true about the Iranian investors in Japan.

Tayyebnia on the sidelines of the meeting in the presence of the two countries' private sector activists also focused on the perspective of Tehran-Tokyo relations in the post-sanctions era.

Kishida, too, said in the ceremony that in addition to economic cooperation, nuclear safety will be among axes the two countries' future cooperation.

By IRNA
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