Government departments from Iran and China have started detailed talks to reach concrete investment and cooperation agreements after a 25-year partnership between the two countries formally went into effect earlier this week, says Iran�s finance minister Ehsan Khandouzi.
�Now each (Iranian) ministry � has started talks related to its field of activity with the Chinese side so that they can reach contracts,� Khandouzi was quoted as saying by the Iranian parliament�s news service ICANA on Sunday.
�It will be after the start of these contracts that the investment and growth we have in mind would effectively take place,� he said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi signed final documents to announce the start of the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership between the two countries on Friday.