Iranian Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance Seyed Ali Madanizadeh visited West Azerbaijan province on 7 Aban, leading a delegation of economic officials. His itinerary included the Maku Free Zone and several border facilities.
Madanizadeh inspected the Sari-Su border market, the Bazargan customs facility and passenger and freight terminals. Discussions covered transit truck traffic, goods handling, customs procedures and passenger crossings.
He later visited the city of Urmia and the Serow border terminal and market. Officials discussed the terminal’s infrastructure and services, as well as concerns raised by drivers and passengers.
The minister said the trip reviewed issues involving exports, imports, transit, passenger movement and cargo transport. He plans to discuss long truck queues at the Bazargan and Serow crossings with Turkish officials during an upcoming visit to Turkey.
Madanizadeh said 12 measures had been approved to address economic problems in the province. Their implementation will be followed up in Tehran.
At the 93rd meeting of West Azerbaijan’s Government–Private Sector Dialogue Council, the minister also announced the launch of a mechanism to settle mutual debts and claims involving medical centres, insurance companies and banks. The mechanism has a limit of 300 trillion tomans.
He also said the Securities and Exchange Organization had been tasked with preparing, by the end of Aban, a plan to shorten the time needed to issue Gam bonds. Madanizadeh proposed setting up a provincial working group to consider ways to rebuild businesses damaged by war.
