In a meeting with an Iranian vice president in Tehran on Sunday evening, Semjen hoped for enhancement of economic, trade and banking cooperation with Iran in the wake of implementation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a nuclear agreement between Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) that came into force in January 2016.
He also highlighted the significance of Eastern countries in Hungary’s foreign policy agenda, in which, he said, Iran has a special position.
For his part, the Iranian official, Hossein Ali Amiri, expressed Tehran’s enthusiasm for stronger political, parliamentary, economic and cultural relations with Budapest.
Amiri also said that Hungary is expected to use its regional and international leverage to contribute to the full implementation of the JCPOA.
In November 2015, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban paid a visit to Iran, leading a group of 120 economic activists, business people and officials from the European country’s banks.
The two countries inked eight documents on cooperation in various areas during the visit, which marked the first trip by a Hungarian prime minister to the Islamic Republic in 27 years.