{"id":5263,"date":"2018-05-14T14:02:21","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.azpar.com\/?p=5263"},"modified":"2018-05-14T14:04:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:04:13","slug":"call-for-closer-tehran-sofia-banking-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/?p=5263","title":{"rendered":"Call for Closer Tehran-Sofia Banking Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"drop\">M<\/span>inister of Economic and Finance Affairs Masoud Karbasian called for increasing banking cooperation with Bulgaria, proposing that the EU member state open bank branches in Iran for facilitating bilateral trade.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBulgaria can have direct banking relations with Iran by establishing bank branches,\u201d Karbasian said in a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Emil Karanikolov, who arrived in Tehran at the head of an economic delegation on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cDraft agreements for economic cooperation have been prepared to be signed by the two sides,\u201d Karbasian was quoted as saying by IBENA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two sides agreed to set up a joint economic commission to explore potential investment opportunities in the two countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Karbasian singled out the two sides\u2019 free trade zones that hold vast potentials for trade cooperation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A meeting was scheduled with the Bulgarian delegation on Monday, which the Iranian official said would focus largely on exploring ways of boosting interactions between the two countries\u2019 private sectors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAll these targets, however, hinge on improved banking relations and we are ready to help build the proper climate,\u201d Karbasian said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The visit by the top Bulgarian economic official came days after a unilateral decision by US President Donald Trump to reinstate nuclear sanctions against Iran while announcing Washington\u2019s withdrawal from the historic 2015 nuclear pact between Iran and six major powers, including the US.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Despite Trump\u2019s announcement, European parties to the deal, as well as Russia and China, have vowed to uphold it.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><em>2018, Call for Closer Tehran-Sofia Banking Relations, Monday, May 14, p.1,<a href=\"https:\/\/financialtribune.com\/articles\/economy-business-and-markets\/86349\/call-for-closer-tehran-sofia-banking-relations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&lt;https:\/\/financialtribune.com<\/a><\/em><em>&gt;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Economic and Finance Affairs Masoud Karbasian called for increasing banking cooperation with Bulgaria, proposing that the EU member state open bank branches in Iran for facilitating bilateral trade. \u201cBulgaria can have direct banking relations with Iran by establishing bank branches,\u201d Karbasian said in a meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Emil Karanikolov, who arrived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5267,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28,31,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-news","category-news-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5268,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions\/5268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.azpar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}