Safari explained: Consultations for concluding the Persian Gulf-Black Sea Corridor Agreement

According to Fars News Agency’s Foreign Policy Group, Mehdi Safari, Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy, said in connection with the follow-up to the ECO summit: “As the president announced in his speech at the ECO summit in Ashgabat in December, the Islamic Republic of Iran It is in line with the flourishing of trade relations between the countries of the region and the operation of all transportation potentials in the countries of the region. Fortunately, at the recent ECO Planning Council meeting hosted by the ECO Secretariat in Tehran, the instructions of the ECO Presidents were on the agenda, and the representatives of the member states discussed ECO’s next year’s executive plan and how to implement the summit resolutions in various areas such as trade. , Investment, transportation, information and communication technology, agriculture, energy, mining, environment, health, banking cooperation, natural disasters, fight against drugs, fight against corruption, judicial and police cooperation, research, culture, tourism , ….. agreed.

He added: “On behalf of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a 50-member delegation consisting of managers and experts of all specialized public and private agencies participated in the nine committees of this council, and I should appreciate the effective presence of all these loved ones.”

Safari also referred to the 11th meeting of ECO Transport Ministers, which was held this week in the presence of the ministers of the member states, and good decisions were made regarding the strengthening of rail, road and sea transportation between the member states, and added: “Among these decisions can be At the request of the ECO Development and Trade Bank to hold an international conference on attracting investment for ECO transport projects, supporting the continuation of freight through ECO rail and road corridors and the construction of missing links, including the Rasht-Astara railway And repairing old routes, supporting a uniform visa issuance mechanism for managers and drivers of regional transport companies, providing facilities at border crossings for smooth and fast movement of food, medicine and humanitarian aid, and relief goods, further efforts to He noted the smooth access of ECO landlocked turtles to open waters, the establishment of the ECO maritime transport network, including the establishment of onshore shipping lines in the Caspian Sea, and the strengthening of the air transport network between member countries for tourism purposes.

He continued: Our country’s delegation headed by Rostam Ghasemi also actively participated in this meeting.

The Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy also addressed the sixth meeting of the “National Working Group on Transport and Transit Diplomacy”, which was hosted by the Chabahar Free Zone in that city on January 20.

According to him, in this meeting, which was held on the sidelines of the Chabahar Logistics Conference, managers of relevant departments including the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development, Customs, Ministry of Silence, Roads, Shipping, Railways, Chamber of Commerce, Ministry of Interior, Parliamentary Research Center, Infrastructure Company And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs discussed ways to develop Chabahar’s unique position in regional and international multimodal transport and transit, and identified the existing problems with the aim of providing a solution. The outcome of this meeting, as in previous meetings of the “National Working Group”, will be made available to decision-making officials and institutions.

At the end, Safari referred to the current negotiations for concluding the “Persian Gulf-Black Sea Corridor Agreement” (Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Bulgaria and Greece) and said: the sixth round of these negotiations is scheduled for May next year in Sofia, Bulgaria. Hold and prepare the text of the agreement for signing. Informal preparations are underway with the ambassadors of the agreement member states in Tehran and other capitals, so that, God willing, we will soon see the emergence of an important transport corridor with various routes to facilitate trade between the countries of the region and the outside world.

He continued: “Recently, a pilot program of cargo transfer from Iran to the Black Sea was implemented in cooperation with the Republic of Azerbaijan and Georgia.”

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