Iran, Nicaragua Sign Comprehensive Cooperation Plan
Date
12/18/2022 9:11:24 PM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) Iran and Nicaragua on Sunday signed a comprehensive plan to
expand cooperation, trend reports citing irna .
The plan was signed by Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein
Amir-Abdollahian and his Nicaraguan counterpart Denis Moncada
during their meeting in Tehran.
In the meeting, the Iranian foreign minister voiced Tehran's
readiness for improving economic and trade relations with Managua
to the highest level.
Amir-Abdollahian said the bilateral Political relations of the
two countries were 'excellent,' stressing that the expansion of
economic and trade ties is among the two countries' top priorities
and should be given more attention.
He said the two countries' comprehensive cooperation plan is a
new and strategic roadmap for developing bilateral relations.
At the same meeting, the Nicaraguan foreign minister said he
hoped that the signing of the comprehensive cooperation plan and
the upcoming first meeting of the joint economic commission would
further strengthen bilateral relations.
During a meeting with Moncada later in the day, Iranian
President Ebrahim Raisi said stronger cooperation between the two
countries will 'neutralize' the pressure from the United States and
its Western allies, according to a statement from the Iranian
president's office.
The Iranian president accused the United States and the West of
using certain tools, such as human rights, to exert pressure on
'independent and resistant' countries.
According to Raisi, both Iran and Nicaragua have strong
capacities that give them a solid foundation for advancing their
relations.
Pointing to the good relations as well as positive and
constructive cooperation between Iran and Nicaragua in
international institutions and organizations, the Iranian president
said resistance against hostilities and the pressures of global
arrogance -- a term Iranian authorities use to refer to the United
States and its allies -- is one of the factors that strengthened
their bilateral relations and cooperation.
Both Iran and Nicaragua have been under U.S. unilateral
sanctions. The sanctions on Iran intensified in 2018 after former
U.S. President Donald Trump pulled out of a 2015 nuclear deal
between Tehran and world powers.
In 1985, then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan imposed sanctions
against Nicaragua, prohibiting all trade between the United States
and Nicaragua.
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