Iran seeks Polish investment
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
26.02.2017 14:22
Iranian officials and business people are looking for partners to invest in the country's northwest, the Polish Agency for Investment and Trade (PAIH) has said.
Tabriz. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Hamed Rezaei.
Iranian officials and entrepreneurs attended a Polish-Iranian business seminar in Warsaw seeking foreign investment in Iran's East Azerbaijan province.
Industrial activity in the province includes "paper manufacturing, steel, copper and glass industries ... oil refineries, petrochemical processing facilities, chemical production, pharmaceutical processing, machine and auto-parts and food industries”, according to PAIH.
Iranian Ambassador to Poland Ramin Mehmanparast said: "Iran offers access to a huge market of 80 million Iranian consumers and to 400 million in the whole region".
Meanwhile, the province's capital, Tabriz, which has ambitions of becoming a smart city, needs improved infrastructure, hospitality and transport, the Governor of East Azerbaijan Esmaeil Jabbarzadeh said.
During the seminar, PAIH was invited to set up a second Iran office in Tabriz.
The agency, which aims to promote Polish business abroad and draw foreign industries to Poland, last year announced it would open a Foreign Commercial Office in Tehran.
The business seminar was the second Polish-Iranian conference organised by PAIH this year. (vb)