TEHRAN (FNA)- Head of the Iranian Parliament's Research Center Kazzem Jalali and his South Korean counterpart Hyun Wook Koh in a meeting in Seoul on Saturday underlined the need to expand ties and cooperation between the two research centers.
During the meeting in the South Korean capital today, Jalali and Hyun called for boosting mutual cooperation in parliamentary research.

Jalali pointed to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed between the Iranian and South Korean parliaments in June, and said, "Despite the development of ties between the Iranian and South Korean legislatures in recent years, there is a need to further increase cooperation between the two countries' research centers in a bid to share their experiences in research areas."

Hyun, for his part, voiced pleasure in continued research cooperation between the two countries' research centers, and assured his Iranian counterpart that he would do his best to implement the contents of the MoUs signed between the two research centers.

In June, the research centers of the Iranian and South Korean parliaments in a ceremony signed an MoU in Tehran to boost mutual cooperation.

Addressing the ceremony at the time, Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani expressed the hope that the MoU could lead to the development of cooperation between Iran and South Korea.

"Today, different issues, including international problems, influence the domestic situation of countries and research cooperation can be effective in their settlement," the Iranian parliament speaker said.

Late in January, Larijani and his South Korean counterpart Kang Chang-hee, in a meeting in Tehran, voiced their capitals' willingness to open new avenues for expansion of their bilateral relations in all spheres.

The volume of non-oil trade transactions between Iran and South Korea stood at $6.2 billion in 2012.

By Fars News Agency

 

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