This Monday, the Minister of People’s Power for Transportation, Ramón Velásquez Araguayán, signed four understanding memorandums with the Islamic Republic of Iran to promote the development of the Venezuelan automotive industry.
These agreements were established during the closing of the Iran-Venezuela Scientific, Technological and Industrial Fair, which was held at the Poliedro de Caracas, from September 15 to 19 and received 15,000 people in these four days.
The also president of the Iran-Venezuela Joint Commission, offered a balance on the process for the acquisition of vehicles: “At the fair we had 9,568 car purchase intentions and 458 tractor purchase intentions.”
He assured “in December we should be delivering the first vehicles to the people who decided to buy them at this fair.” The MPPT established these agreements with the Iranian Saipa, IKCO, ITMO and Between Behyaar Sanaat companies.
To finalize the negotiations between these nations, the authorities and investors have the facility of direct transfer through Conviasa with the flight between Caracas and Tehran: “We established the Iran-Caracas flight so that all the businessmen who want to visit their counterpart have the flight there, which for now has a weekly frequency”, stressed Minister Velásquez.
At the end of the expo fair, more than 200 intentions of agreements were also signed between both countries, by the sectoral vice president for Education, Health, Science and Technology, Gabriela Jiménez, vice president of the Center for International Cooperation in Science and Technology of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mahdi Ghalenovi and the president of PDVSA, Asdrúbal Chávez, in addition to agreements with the private sector.
The sectoral vice president, Gabriela Jiménez, indicated: “We have more than 204 business intentions that have been carried out during the 4 days of the fair.”
She also stressed that these intentions of agreements will foster alliances, exchanges, business and cooperation: “60 memorandums remain to be signed as part of an intense exercise to listen to each other, to understand each other, to build complementarity”.
Jiménez thanked all the authorities, workers of the entities that made the execution of the fair possible and the national community that attended the exhibition “to build new productive economic ecosystems.”
