01 April 2013 - orsam

2. IRAN
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation
Calls for Further Trade Interaction
with Iran
TEHRAN (FNA)- A senior official of the
Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO)
called on Iran to play a more effective role
in trade interactions with SCO member
states.
The issue was raised by SCO's Business
Council Chairman Marat Sharshekeev in a
meeting with Iranian Ambassador to
Bishkek Ali Najafi on Saturday.
Sharshekeev pointed to Iran's active role
in several international organizations, and
stressed the need for benefiting from
Iran's experiences in SCO business council.
Najafi, for his part, urged the Iranian
businessmen and entrepreneurs to
increase their trade and economic
transactions with SCO member states.
In December, Iranian First Vice President
Mohammad Reza Rahimi said the country
is ready to play a constructive role in
bolstering the SCO's activities and
performance.
"The organization has the capability to act
influentially in international equations
through the further expansion of its
activities, and the Islamic Republic of Iran
is ready to play a desirable and
remarkable role in this regard," Rahimi
said in a meeting with Kyrgyz Prime
Minister Zhantoro Satybaldiyev in Bishkek
at the time.
The SCO Business Council was established
in June 2006.
It is a non-governmental body, which
brings together the most influential
members of the business communities of
the six member states of the Shanghai
Cooperation Organization (China,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan,
and Uzbekistan).
Boosting economic cooperation in the
framework of the SCO, establishing direct
links and dialogue among business and
financial circles of the SCO member states
are some of the main objectives of the
SCO Business Council.
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