Tehran, May 28, IRNA � Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius in a meeting with Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi on Saturday said that Lithuania is interested in cooperation with Iran on telecommunications.


n the meeting, Vaezi said that Iran is ready to have reciprocal cooperation with Lithuania in different sections of telecommunications, information technology, software, electronic government, post, e-commerce and telecom networks.

He called for seeting up Joint Commission of the Communications by the respective ministries of Iran and Lithuania to follow up procedures for partnership.
Vaezi said that he was pleased with Lithuania taking the 16th rank in the sector of telecommunications and information technology and that Lithuania has achieved noticeable progress in the field.

Lithuania is a member of European Union.

Linas Linkevicius met with President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Saturday.

Lithuania located northeast of Europe and is neighboring Latvia from north, Belarus from east and southeast, Poland from south and Russia from southwest and to the Baltic Sea from west.

Lithuania exports mineral products, mechanical, electrical and chemical equipment, textile, food products, wood and furniture industries.

By IRNA