Senior officials from Iran and the Netherlands signed a contract on the expansion of bilateral economic ties in the coming year.
In a meeting in The Hague, Iran’s Deputy Economy Minister Mohammad Khazaei and his Dutch counterpart signed the contract, which entails cooperation in eleven main fields
within the framework of an economic roadmap the two countries have already reached.
According to the document, the Iranian and Dutch companies would enhance cooperation in areas relating to the energy industry, water management, agriculture, shipping industry, commercial and banking ties, technology and innovation, airport development and some other fields.
Tehran and Amsterdam have ramped up efforts to broaden trade ties after coming into forces 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), in January 2016.
Iran’s economic officials complain about the persistence of obstacles to banking interaction with the other countries, saying the JCPOA was supposed to fully facilitate the country’s international trade.
