Iranian trade minister in Riyadh

Iranian Trade Minister Muhammad Sharia Madari arrived in Riyadh on Monday to preside over the Iranian side to the meetings of the joint Iranian-Saudi committee, due to start deliberations on Tuesday.

The Iranian ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Muhammad Rida Nouri, said the committee will discuss during its two-day deliberations "all issues of cooperation between the two countries in economic, trade, cultural and technical areas with the objectives to strengthen the developed bilateral relations between the two sisterly countries."

Nouri added that Iranian and Saudi businessmen will meet to discuss the "possibility of setting up joint projects in the two countries."