Seyyed Reza Fatemi Amin made the remarks in a meeting with
visiting Deputy Chairperson of Indonesian House of Representatives Coordinator
for Industry and Development Rachmat Gobel in Tehran during which he also said
that Indonesia can use Iran’s Chabahar Port as a regional hub for covering its
export activities.
He put the current value of trade exchanged between the two
countries of Iran and Indonesia at $1 billion and called for setting up a
Working Group in line with the increasing volume of trade and economic
exchanges between the two countries.
Pointing out that Iran has very good transit capacities in
the area of north-south corridor, he said that Russia is also interested in the
development of this corridor by Iran, because this route is really reasonably
priced.
Deputy Chairperson of Indonesian House of Representatives
Coordinator for Industry and Development, for his part, said his trip to Tehran
is to follow up on his country's previous consultations with the Iranian side
to increase trade relations, and following up on the emphasis of the presidents
of the two countries to deepen economic relations.