{"id":136134,"date":"2023-08-05T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136134"},"modified":"2023-08-05T16:24:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T23:24:41","slug":"sri-lanka-welcomes-iranian-investors-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/08\/05\/sri-lanka-welcomes-iranian-investors-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Sri Lanka Welcomes Iranian Investors: FM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Ali Sabry said his country is eager to attract investment from Iran.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Saturday, Sabry praised Iran for its progress under the pressure of sanctions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We want to have good relations with Iran. We are also keen to see more Iranians traveling to Sri Lanka,\u201d the foreign minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describing his country as the gateway to East Asia, Sabry said, I invite the Iranian companies to pay attention to Sri Lanka. Two-thirds of growth in the future will happen in Asia. We call on your (Iranian) companies to make investments in our country (Sri Lanka).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For his part, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said they have held talks on a broad range of bilateral and international issues, including economic and trade cooperation between Tehran and Colombo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We share views about the existence of joint political will to expand scientific and academic cooperation, as well as the use of new technologies and the capacity of knowledge-based companies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amirabdollahian also noted that Sri Lanka\u2019s role as the new chair of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) would provide a suitable opportunity for Iran\u2019s cooperation with the other member states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IORA is an inter-governmental organization that was established in March 1997. It is now a dynamic organization of 23 members and 11 dialogue partners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Tasnim News TEHRAN (Tasnim) \u2013 Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Ali Sabry said his country is eager to attract investment from Iran. Speaking at a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Saturday, Sabry praised Iran for its progress under the pressure of sanctions. We want to have good relations with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}