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Iran, Japan and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) have agreed to further cooperate on fishery in Iran.
The three parties have agreed to cooperate on launching the third phase of advanced know-how on fishery in the Iranian port city of Chabahar in southeastern Iran.
The project will be valued at some €180,000.
Japan had previously provided some €680,000 to finance the first and second phases of the project.
Cooperation on the project was part of signing five cooperation documents between UNIDO and Japan at UNIDO headquarters in Vienna, in presence of permanent representatives of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, South Africa and Uganda.
Iran’s Ambassador to the Vienna-based international organizations, Kazem Gharibabadi, in his statement to the signing ceremony, underlined the strategic position of Chabahar Port.
He said that Chabahar Port provides transit facilitates of commodities between countries located at northern side of the Indian Ocean and Central Asian countries.
He stressed the significance of international cooperation to help boost sustainable growth of countries and called for sharing experience and know-how to counter the challenges facing economic development.
Gharibabadi urged the need for an immediate lifting of illegal sanctions and restrictions imposed on certain countries which impede their development.
Nevertheless, Governor of Central Bank of Iran, Abdolnasser Hemmati said last week that in the third quarter of 2019 (October, November and December) Iran had a growth in the field of economy, and the big workshops showed a 6.1% growth in comparison with the same period in 2018.
In relevant remarks in February, Hemmati had said that his country’s non-oil economy recorded a 0.4% growth in the first 3 months of the current Persian calendar year (March 21-June 21), adding that it showed that Tehran had contained the negative impacts of US sanctions.
Hemmati said in a post on his Instagram page that growth recorded in the first quarter of the local calendar year, compared to the similar period in 2018, was a first to come after months of depression that began following a decision by the United States last year to withdraw from an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program and impose sanctions on the country.
The CBI governor said the meager figure reported for growth in the period was below Iran’s real economic potentials.
He said, however, that the development was promising given that Iran had reported three quarters of negative growth over 2018-2019.
This achievement has been realized in light of tranquility and relative stability of the market and easing of the impacts of the foreign shocks caused by sanction and pressure, said Hemmati.
