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France has expressed the EU's willingness to continue humanitarian cooperation with Iran in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic, according to Elysee Palace.

Some 750,787 tons of goods were exported from the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran to the Eurasian countries during the past fiscal year (ended on March 19), registering a 76% growth compared with the previous year. According to Ali Yusefi, head of Nowshahr customs office, dairy products, plastics, cement, and minerals, worth $32.92 million, constituted the lion’s share of the exports from the green province in the past year. The official noted that over 2 million tons of different products worth 685.776 million were imported from the Eurasian countries to the province during the same period. The imports observed an increase of 97% and 17% in terms of volume and value, respectively, he added. In September 2017, Iran lifted the customs tariffs on certain agricultural products that are exported to Eurasian countries to encourage exports to countries such as Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. Mazandaran is responsible for the production of 40% of Iran’s rice, 50% of citrus fruits as well as 10% of poultry meat, part of which are offered in the international markets.

More than 328,000 tons of goods worth about $164 million were exported to member countries of Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) via customs of Gilan province, northern Iran, since October 27, 2019 – the date of entry into force of the Interim Trade Memorandum between Iran and EAEU – till the end of last Iranian year on March 20.

Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN office in Geneva said in a letter to the World Health Organization (WHO) chief that the imposition and intensification of US sanctions on Iran amidst the coronavirus pandemic amount to a crime against humanity.

Head of Iranian Space Agency (ISA) Morteza Barari on Sat. said that his agency is planning to develop space infrastructures in four steps in the current Iranian calendar year (started March 20, 2020).

The steady increase in Iran’s gas production has provided the domestic petrochemical players with the opportunity to diversify their feedstocks in a bid to tackle the shortages created in the past years.

Iran’s Vice-President for Science and Technology Sorena Sattari said that the COVID-19 diagnostic system, which was unveiled on Sat., is the product of the country's investment in healthcare and knowledge-based companies.

Trade volume exchanged between Islamic Republic of Iran and Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) exceeded $1.4 billion after the implementation of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) on Oct. 27, 2019.

Loading and unloading operations of goods at Iranian ports have registered a 55 percent decline since the beginning of the current year [started March 20, 2020] up to the present time due to the spread of coronavirus, also known as COVID-19.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures Alena Douhan called for the lifting of all unilateral sanctions that obstruct the humanitarian responses of sanctioned States, in order to enable their health care systems to fight the COVID-19 pandemic and save lives.