TEHRAN – Parliament speaker Muhammad Baqer Qalibaf has unveiled plans for the implementation of an inclusive agreement with Syria within the next three months.
Speaking to reporters upon arrival in Tehran after a four-day visit to Syria, Qalibaf said he had held fruitful talks with Syrian authorities about how to achieve the two countries’ economic and trade targets.
Iran and Syria will begin to carry out an inclusive agreement within the next three months, he said.
He also said the parliaments of the two countries will ratify the inclusive agreement that Iran and Syria have been working on for more than a year.
Pointing to extensive talks that his delegation held with the Syrian and Iranian business people, Qalibaf said there are suitable grounds for economic cooperation between Iran and Syria.
Iran, he said, should work with Syria in the same way it supported the Arab country in the fight against terrorism, he added.
Qalibaf also unveiled plans for the Syrian prime minister’s upcoming visit to Tehran, saying Hussein Arnous is about to take part in the inauguration of Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raeisi.
In a meeting with members of Iran-Syria Parliamentary Friendship Group in Damascus earlier this month, Syrian Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad said his country has been rid of crisis and was ready to promote economic and trade cooperation with friendly nations, including Iran, in the reconstruction era.
In comments in February, the chairman of Syria-Iran Chamber of Commerce said Iranian companies were preferred to others to carry out projects in the reconstruction process of Syria after years of war.
In November 2019, Iran and Syria signed a memorandum of understanding to establish three joint companies to accelerate the reconstruction of the Arab country, which has been stricken by years of foreign-backed civil war.