FM urges Ukraine to ease visa restrictions for Iranian businessmen

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on Ukraine to provide more consular facilities for Iran's businessmen and industrialists visiting the European country.

The Iranian foreign minister made the remarks in a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin in Tehran on Sunday.

"By increasing the consultations between the Iranian and Ukrainian officials and facilitating issuance of visas for Iranian industrialists and businessmen, I hope the two countries could broaden their relations," Zarif said, reminding vast capacities for Tehran-Kiev cooperation in different areas of higher education, science, technology, energy, power plants, renewable energies and agriculture.

The Iranian foreign minister said that the nuclear agreement between Tehran and the P5+1 (the US, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany) has paved the way for boosting economic and industrial cooperation between the two countries.

Klimkin, heading a high-ranking delegation, arrived in Tehran on Sunday morning on a two-day visit at the invitation of Zarif.

In late February, Ukrainian Ambassador in Tehran Sergei Buldiliak said his country is willing to enter into joint ventures with Iran in energy and aircraft manufacturing.

EA