Iran, Turkey establish ‘strategic cooperation council’

Hassan Rouhani told reporters in Mehrabad Airport on Tuesday that in the meeting of strategic council, “we discussed bilateral issues of interest.”

“It was the first official visit by an Iranian government official in last 18 years. It was long overdue, which was realized within two days,” said the president, “in doing so, we had extensive meetings with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and President Abdullah Gül Where we agreed to improve the current level of cooperation.”

“The ministers also meet to discuss bilateral matters of interest,” added Rouhani, “they discussed increasing Iran’s share of energy including electricity, oil, and gas in Turkish market.”

“Investment by Iranian businessman in Turkey was a subject of discussion. We believe that the meeting was unique, since it was a plenary meeting of both countries’ heads of chambers of commerce and ministers,” he added.

President also told reporters in the airport that good decisions had been made about railroad via Bazargan border post. “Both countries had similar positions on fighting violence and extremism and total disarmament of the region; since it was important in international level,” Rouhani asserted.

A group of 90 businessmen and entrepreneurs were among the delegation to Turkey.

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