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Iran-Belarus sign MoU on agriculture

Moscow, June 11, IRNA – Iran's Agricultural Jihad Minister and Belarusian Republic Minister of Agriculture and Food Stuff in Minsk, signed an MoU on agriculture on Friday.

According to a report from the Iran’s Embassy in Minsk, the agreement was signed following negotiations between Iran's Agriculture Minister Sadeq Khalilian and his Belarusian counterpart Simon Shapiro.

Training technicians and experts, cooperation in agricultural machination and machinery, animal husbandry and race improvement, joint scientific and research activities in production of medicine and vaccines are some of the issues which have been agreed upon.

Both sides meanwhile agreed to finalize an agreement on quarantine and plants preservation within a six month period.

Khalilian and Shapiro had also surveyed grounds for agricultural cooperation on wednesday evening. Khalilian also emphasized the need for implementing the formerly reached agreements, surveying the fields for further cooperation.

Iran and Belarus relations are vast and still expanding in economic, commercial, energy and industrial fields.

Both countries’ presidents Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Alexander Lukashenco had on last Thursday in a phone talk emphasized the need for fast implementation of the reached agreements, completion of joint projects, and activation of the entire existing potentials at both countries at the service of further expansion of bilateral ties and cooperation./end

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