Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Slovakia’s Deputy Foreign Minister stressed the need to expand bilateral economic cooperation.

During a meeting with Slovakia's Deputy Foreign Minister Ingrid Brocková in Tehran, Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Mehdi Safari said the two sides could co-operate in the fields of energy, petrochemicals, pharmaceutical, and food industries, the development of corona vaccines, new and knowledge-based technologies.

 Slovakia’s Deputy Foreign Minister also expressed hope that holding a joint economic commission would be an important step in the development of trade cooperation between the two countries.