Int’l Industrial Expo in Uzbekistan Hosts Iranian Knowledge-Based Companies
The exhibition is one of the most prestigious and important exhibitions in Uzbekistan in the field of metallurgy, industrial machinery, metal technologies, and related industries.
A number of 12 competent Iranian knowledge-based companies, active in the fields of metallurgy, machinery, and metal technologies, supported by Iran National Innovation Fund displayed their latest products and achievements to visitors.
The exhibition was held in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent on April 2-4.
In February, an official with the Iran's Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) detailed the agreements that were reached between Iran and Uzbekistan during the recent visit of Iranian industry minister Abbas Aliabadi to Tashkent.
Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine, and Trade Abbas Aliabadi recently visited Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan at the head of a delegation and signed agreements with the Central Asian country’s officials to boost economic and industrial cooperation.
“A specialized delegation including the CEOs of more than twenty major companies in the country(Iran) headed by the elected deputy ministers was sent to Uzbekistan two days before the main delegation's trip to survey the fields for cooperation,” deputy director of International Business Promotion Department of Iran’s Trade Promotion Organization (TPO) Mohammad-Sadegh Ghanadzadeh said.
"During two days, the representatives of the private and public sectors conducted extensive negotiations with their respective companies and institutions and extracted the most important areas of cooperation and the key obstacles on the way to the development of relations. All these cases were categorized in the framework of the talks that he industry minister held with the ministers and high-ranking officials of Uzbekistan and were discussed during the joint meeting of the minister with the entire Iranian business delegation and economic activists and traders who reside there,” Ghanadzadeh also said.
According to the TOP official, during the trip, the Iranian delegation accompanying the industry minister met with the Uzbekistan’s minister of industry and investment, the minister of energy, the minister of mines and geology and finally the prime minister of the country.
He further said the central banks of Iran and Uzbekistan agreed during the trip to activate the banking exchange mechanism and to introduce commercial banks to advance technical negotiations between the two countries.
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