Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi on Wednesday urged Iran to work together with Bangladesh to expedite bi-lateral trade and investment through strengthening relationship of the two countries.
Minister has made the call while exchanging views with the Iranian Ambassador to Bangladesh Mansur Chavosi as the envoy called on Minister at his office at the Bangladesh Secretariat.
Minister said Bangladesh has got a historic relationship with Iran in terms of trade and commerce and the country is a leading trade partner of Bangladesh in the Middle East.
“Although Bangladesh Imports more than export to the country but the quantity is not too high, so still there have lots of opportunities to expansion of export and import”, Minister added.
Minister informed that both Bangladesh and Iran are the members of OIC again both are members of D-8, so there have scope to take the level of relationship of the two countries to a new height.
While addressing, Iranian Ambassador said Bangladesh is an old and trusted friend of Iran, both the countries are tied with a strong and old cultural bondage and the relationship is getting tighter day by day.
The envoy praised the remarkable progress in all the indexes including economic growth of Bangladesh under the leadership of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
