TEHRAN – Iranian Health Minister at the end of his visit to India, citedthe country as one of the major powers in medicine, raw materials andvaccines and said both countries welcome the promotion of extensiverelations.
‘Indian officials are interested in promoting high-level relations withIndia,’ Seyyed Hassan Hashemi said Saturday morning at the end of histhree-day visit to attend the International Mother and Child Health Summitin New Delhi.
‘India has made a lot of progress’, he said. ‘Many of the European andAmerican markets are available to the Indian companies of medicine andvaccines production, unfortunately our traditional outlook is to Europeanand American companies which has to be changed.’
The ‘World Healthcare Forum, the Child and Nutrition in India’, wasattended by a large number of world health ministers. A team from Iran’sMinistry of Health with a number of lectures on various sectors of thesummit was present at the forum, the Ministry of Health said.
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Hashemi stressed that Indian officials are interested in promotingcomprehensive relations with Iran which is a very good opportunity toexploit talents and this is less costly and more effective for the countryand the people, and certainly Iran and the region make a very good marketfor India.
