Iranian President Receives Swiss Counterpart, Hails People’s Participation in Elections
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Iranian President Sheikh Hassan Rouhani officially received his Swiss counterpart Johann Schneider-Ammann at Sa'dabad Cultural Complex in Tehran on Saturday.
Schneider-Ammann arrived in Iranian capital on Friday evening to confer with Iranian officials on expansion of bilateral cooperation, heading a high-ranking political, economic, and scientific delegation in his official visit to the country.
Promoting the Tehran-Bern ties in all fields is among the objectives of Schneider-Ammann's visit. In addition, the two countries are cooperating to get Iran's membership in the World Trade Organization.
For the purpose, the visiting President is accompanied with representatives of 38 major Swiss companies, a fact that shows Bern keenness to develop its relations with Tehran, particularly after the recent termination of nuclear-related anti-Iran sanctions.
According to Rouhani, they also reviewed ways of further activating banking relations between the two countries as well as insurance issues which account for basic grounds of mutual cooperation.
He later announced that the two countries signed 6 agreements on scientific and technical cooperation and agreed on furthering tourist exchanges given the high capacities of both countries in this area.
Rouhani further added that they touched upon the issue of human rights, explaining that Muslims in Europe were presently suffering much because of the Islamophobia encouraged in the continent due to influx of people there who were fleeing terrorist threats.
In a different context, Rouhani praised the nation's exceptional turnout in the elections and said their massive participation created very glamorous and spectacular scenes.
He referred to independence, national sovereignty, democracy and elections as the elements which bring the two countries together as they both share them as the foundations of their governments' systems.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
