Iranian FM Highlights Relations with ChinaIranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi has said that the relations between Iran and China have kept developing over the past three decades, the official IRNA news agency reported on Friday.Kharazi made the remarks on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the diplomatic relations between the countries, which fell on Thursday. He noted that Iran and China have witnessed a "broad horizon of multi-faceted cooperation, which has led to the elimination of many problems in the two countries." The governments and private sectors of both countries are fully entangled in political, economic and cultural cooperation, he added, expressing hope for ever-onward trend of boosting the bilateral comprehensive relations. The Iranian minister thanked China for the warm welcome to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami's internationally acknowledged initiative for dialog among civilizations. Iran and China are among the world's first civil societies and " actually pioneered the freedom-seeking moves of different nations in the course of the past millennium," he stressed. "The two great civilizations' mutual influence on each other, as well as all the other living civilizations, has been so deep-rooted and at grassroots level that various historic and political ups and downs have never succeeded in downgrading them," Kharazi said. Iran and China established diplomatic relations on August 16, 1971. Since Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, the Tehran-Beijing relations have strengthened in various fields. Last year, their trade volume stood at a record high of 2.5 billion U.S. dollars. |
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