Official: Iran Seeks to Become Venezuela's Partner in Telecommunication Field

The managers of the top telecommunications companies in Venezuela who recently traveled to Iran in order to review the stages of the contract signed with one of the Iranian technology companies, met with Amir Hossein Mirabadi, Head of the Center for International Science and Technology Interactions.

While addressing the meeting, Mirabadi said that Iran's efforts in this cooperation are aimed at strengthening Venezuela's technological might, adding, “We want to be a strong partner for Venezuela in technological fields, and we hope that this relationship and contract will lay the ground for the presence of a group of knowledge-based and technological companies in Venezuela.”

Luis Marcano, the Vice Minister of Planning of Science and Technology of Venezuela expressed satisfaction with the visits he has had to Iran's technological infrastructure during the trip, and pointed to Iran's high capabilities in the field of technology, voicing hope that Venezuela's telecommunications can also be modernized and equipped using the capabilities offered by the Iranian companies.

He also stated that the purpose of the trip, which took place in companionship with a group of experts and senior managers of Venezuela's telecommunication, was to plan for the development of Venezuela's infrastructure in line with the 2030 plan for the modernization of the country's telecommunications.

According to the report by the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science, Technology, and Knowledge-Based Economy, the contract was signed between the Iranian and Venezuelan side during he visit of the President of Iran to Venezuela and it had been signed in the field of telecommunications and equipping telecommunication systems. During President Raeisi’s visit to Venezuela in the middle of last summer, an Iranian exhibition of knowledge-based companies’ achievements was held in Caracas.

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