TEHRAN- Iran is taking the final steps to conclude its economic cooperation roadmap with Spain, a senior official in Iran�s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) said, the TPO portal published on Sunday.


Making the remarks in a meeting held to discuss and prepare the said roadmap in Tehran, where officials from Iran-Spain Business Council and more than 50 Spanish businessmen took part, Abolfazl Koodeie said that while both countries eye ever-increasing volume of non-oil exports, �this joint meeting is being held to provide the Iranian and Spanish state-run and private sectors with the chance to confer development of bilateral economic ties and prepare a compressive economic cooperation roadmap to guarantee Iran�s share in the Spanish market.�

As reported, representatives from various companies discussed expansion of exports of Iranian goods and services to Spain as well as the obstacles on the way to reach that target in this meeting.

�TPO, under the current international conditions and regarding the available capacities in Iran, has started preparation of some economic roadmaps with different countries with a specific focus on expansion of technological, banking and finance, industrial, export insurance, energy, renewable energy, railway, and tourism ties,� Koodeie said.

�Spain would be the second European country, after Austria, that the Islamic Republic concludes an economic cooperation roadmap with,� he added.

Earlier on May 9, Tehran and Madrid signed an MoU on economic cooperation and put preparation of the economic cooperation roadmap on the agenda at the time.

By Tehran Times