TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines Gholam Hossein Shafeyee underlined that the new policies adopted by the Iranian government have persuaded many foreign countries to send delegations to Tehran to broaden bilateral economic and trade ties."Thanks to Iran's active political diplomacy, new conditions have been created in Iran's economic relations with different countries," Shafeyee said on Tuesday.
He said that at present Iran's Chamber of Commerce, Industries and Mines enjoys joint councils and chambers with over 20 world states.
Shafeyee added that Iran's Chamber is now facing a heavy traffic of visits by foreign delegations who seek to increase their economic and trade exchanges with Tehran.
In relevant remarks on Sunday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed inefficiency of the US-led sanctions against the Islamic Republic, and said many western companies are now negotiating and even signing contracts with Iran to expand their cooperation with the country.
"The continuation of unfair sanctions against Tehran is impossible and the western firms are now in negotiations (with Iran) and endorsing cooperation contracts with Iran," Rouhani said in a meeting with South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane in Tehran.
He said that the incorrect and unfair sanctions system put in place by the West against Iran has cracked and is in trouble now.
On November 24, Iran and the world powers sealed a six-month Joint Plan of Action to lay the groundwork for the full resolution of the Wests decade-old dispute with Iran over its nuclear energy program. They held several round of talks by now and expressed the hope that they will reach a comprehensive deal until July 20.
In exchange for Tehrans confidence-building bid to limit certain aspects of its nuclear activities, the Sextet of world powers agreed to lift some of the existing sanctions against Tehran and continue talks with the country to settle all problems between the two sides.
After the Geneva deal, many European companies have been making increasing demands for cooperation with Iran.
Different European countries, including France, Germany and the Netherlands, are planning to enhance their economic relations with Iran, a business powerhouse in the Middle East region, as sanctions imposed against Tehran are partially suspended.
"Optimism is predominating that there has finally been something of a relaxation in political relations and therefore in business possibilities," Head of Trade Relations at the Association of German Chambers of Commerce Volker Treier said in January.
The association invited the representatives of German private sectors to hold a meeting over doing business in Iran and the interested representatives filled the room very quickly, Treier added.
Dutch ambassador to Iran Jos Douma held a similar meeting in the Netherlands in January to discuss the terms of cooperation between Tehran and the Dutch companies which are eager to return to the Iranian market.
Paris is also sending the executive representatives of around 100 French firms to Tehran for "exploratory" negotiations with Iranian officials in a bid to tap into the potential for mutual economic cooperation between the two sides.
By Fars News Agency
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