French, Kuwaiti FMs Due in Tehran Soon
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi announced that the foreign ministers of France and Kuwait plan to pay officials visits to the Islamic republic in the near future.
Speaking to reporters in Tehran at his press conference on Monday, Qassemi said that Iranian and Kuwaiti officials have agreed on a trip to Tehran by a delegation from the Arab country after the date of the visit changed twice.
He added that the Kuwaiti foreign minister and an adviser to the prime minister of the country are slated to pay an official visit to Tehran in the next few days.
The Iranian spokesman further said the French foreign minister will also travel to Iran in the near future and attend a meeting of the two countries’ joint economic commission.
Iran has experienced a positive balance of €383 million in trade with France during the first nine months of 2016, after resumption of crude exports to Europe’s biggest purchaser of Iranian oil.
France’s imports from Iran in January-September 2016 stood at €842 million, more than 34 times greater than the same period in 2015.
The European country’s imports from Iran averaged €34.4 million from 2014 until 2016, and reached €229 million in August 2016.
