President Rouhani made the remarks on Saturday in a meeting with India’s new
ambassador to Iran, Gaddam Dharmendra, after receiving his credentials.
He also said mutual ties between Iran and India are growing in all areas and
underlined that Tehran attaches significance to deepening of its ties with New
Delhi.
"The signs of the long-time mutual cooperation between Iran and India are
visible across the two states and our today’s mission is preserving the current
strengthened ties,” he said.
President Rouhani also expressed satisfaction with the growing mutual ties
between the two sides over the past years and referred to the achievements made
during the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Iran.
"The agreements made by Iran and India during the Indian PM’s visit to Iran
particularly those made on Chabahar as well as the trilateral ones between Iran,
Afghanistan and India are highly significant,” he said.
He referred to Chabahar as a symbol of cooperation between Iran and India and
called for immediate implementation of the agreements made in energy areas.
The Iranian president said signing long-term agreements play a key role in
deepening of the strategic ties between the two states.
He then described all regional states’ presence in fight against terrorism as
urgent and expressed hope that New Delhi and Islamabad as two regional states
should take steps in the direction of restoring peace and stability to the
region.
President Rouhani expressed his country’s preparedness to expand ties with India
in fight against terror and strengthening regional security.
For his part, India’s new ambassador to Iran delivered the Indian president and
nation’s warm regards to the government and nation of Iran and underlined that
his country is willing to expand further its ties with Iran in mutual areas.
Dharmendra underlined that mutual ties are moving forward fast in Chabahar and
said so far good progresses have been made and use of national currency has
further increased trade volume between the two nations.
He also called for further mutual cooperation between Iran and India in fight
against terror.
Source:IFP