Regular flights between the Iranian and Tajik capitals have been resumed after they were suspended in February 2020 due to the global outbreak of the COVID-19, according to an official with Tajikistan Civil Aviation Agency.
President of Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines, and Agriculture (ICCIMA) Gholam Hossein Shafei and his visiting Tajik counterpart Jumakhonzoda Jamshed signed a cooperation document in Tehran on Monday.
First Secretary of the Tajikistan Embassy in Tehran Marufjon Abdurahmonov said that during the recent visit of Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi to Tajikistan, the two sides decided to increase their bilateral trade to €500 million per year.
The KTAI corridor, which has recently been launched following the first successful TIR pilot operation from Shahid Rajaee Port in the southern Hormozgan Province to Kyrgyzstan, offers a shorter route from Iran to Central Asia.
Tajikistan’s Ambassador to Iran Zohidi Nizomiddin Shamsiddinzoda visited Iran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture (ICCIMA) on Saturday and held talks with Gholam Hossein Shafei, Iran private sector parliament’s president.
Iran and Tajikistan are eager to scale up their bilateral trade exchanges as the two Farsi-speaking nations have seen ups and downs in their political and economic ties in recent years.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his country is prepared to incentivise foreign investment as well as help raise the Asian well-being and life quality.
Hassan Rouhani is set to take part in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia that will be held in Bishkek and Dushanbe.
Tajikistan is a landlocked Central Asian country that doesn’t have any access to any international or local body of water. That’s why the country is seeking to use Chabahar Port in this regard.