Iranian vice president arrives in Damascus

Iranian Vice President and Chairman of Management and Planning Establishment, Hamid Riza Bradran Shoraka, and an accompanying delegation arrived in Damascus on Friday on a three-day official visit to Syria.

In a statement to reporters Shoraka said that his visit came in the framework of boosting and consolidating relations with Syria in all fields particularly in sphere of economic planning, pointing out to Syria's prominent place in the Iranian foreign policy.

For his part, Chairman of the State Planning Commission, Abdullah Dardari who welcomed the Iranian official at Damascus International Airport stressed in a similar statement that Syria has advanced relations with Iran in all the political, economic, cultural and social spheres.

He underlined the importance of Shoraka's visit in consolidation of consultation policy among the two countries in spheres of the overall economic planning and liberalization of foreign trade and economic reform.