Iranian and Ukrainian officials in a meeting in Kiev on Saturday explored avenues for bolstering mutual cooperation between the two countries in different areas of health, including hygiene and medical affairs.
“The relations between the two countries enjoy strong bases due to their traditional interests and bonds and we should make up for the slump (in the two countries’ relations) in the last few years with rapid strides,” Ukrainian Health Minister Zinoviy Mytnyk said in a meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Kiev Akbar Qassemi on Saturday.
Mytnyk announced his country’s readiness to provide the ground for an exchange of experiences between the two states in hygiene and medical fields through an increase in reciprocal visits by the relevant committees of the two countries’ health ministries.
During the meeting, the two sides also agreed to pave the way to boost reciprocal visits by Iranian and Ukrainian health ministry officials.
Iran has been seeking to bolster ties with Eastern Europe, specially Ukraine, in all the different political, economic and cultural spheres in the last few years.
Iran in 2009 signed an agreement with a Ukrainian company to transfer technology for helicopter manufacturing to the Islamic Republic.
Also in the same year, chairman of the “Ukraine Motor Sich Aircraft Manufacturer” declared that his company planned to produce a new passenger plane in Iran.
The company is the manufacturer of Antonov Plane and has already co-produced Iran-140 plane with Iran.
The passenger plane is a short range plane with the capacity of 70 to 90 passengers and flies at 870 km per hour.
Fars News