TEHRAN – Director of the International Affairs Department of the Ministry of Energy Mojtaba Akbari has said that the eighth edition of Iran-Qatar Joint Economic Cooperation Commission is scheduled to convene in Kish Island in southern Iran in late December, according to the secretary of the commission.
Akbari made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran which discussed trade relations between Iran and Qatar.
He said that today’s meeting focused on implementation of the agreements reached during the previous session of Iran-Qatar Joint Economic Commission in Doha where a number of documents were signed by Iranian Energy Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian and Qatar’s Minister of Commerce and Industry.
Also addressing the meeting, Iran’s Cultural Attaché in Doha Abbas Abdolkhani said that the Qatari economy is a single-product industry and the leaders of the country have plans to cut reliance on oil and expand non-oil exchanges.
He said that the Qatari efforts to get rid of the single-product economy is a chance for Iran to further increase exchanges with the country.