Deputy Economy Minister of Iran to visit Moscow

Today, Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mehdi Sanai announced that on Monday, February 8th, the Deputy Minister of Economy of the country will visit Russia. The purpose of the visit is negotiations with the Ministry of Finance and signing of contracts on a credit line Moscow is launching for Russian-Iranian projects

In addition, the diplomat explained that the Iranian deputy minister will hold talks with Deputy Russian Finance Minister Sergey Storchak.

"This is very important, because there are 40 billion dollars-worth of initialled projects, and there are contracts worth more than 2 billion dollars, signed during the Russian President's visit to Tehran. So it is necessary to finalize this process and sign a contract," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.