The minister said, "We are eager to expand our ties with Russia in many grounds."
As for Iran-Russia cooperation for construction of power plant, he said though recruiting domestic potential for commissioning and implementation of the projects is a mandate, it is highly important to go for domestic capacity.
Touching on fall in Iran's exports to Russia and two-fold increase in imports from the country, Nematzadeh said through promoting economic and commercial relations, especially raising volume of Iran's exports of raw materials, farming products, auto and auto parts, medicine and medical equipment, "We should attain a balance in the exports of the two countries."
The official said appropriate grounds have been prepared for promotion of mutual cooperation in manufacture of aircraft and auto. "We are interested in cooperation for production of heavy cars, wagon and locomotive."
The Russian energy minister said Iran and Russia have reached agreement to raise volume of transactions up to 10 billion dollars. "Cargo trade by the two countries has shown 80 percent increase this year; Though Russian exports attained large portion, efforts were made to strike a balance by raising Iran's share."
He voiced interest of Russian heavy auto manufacturing companies in activity in Iranian market and said his company is interested in cooperation in production of light and heavy autos so that a Russian company will put into operation an assembly line for farming equipment in Iran.
Novak underlined promotion of cooperation in research and education and said during the visit of Russian delegation; important issues were discussed with the Iranian party for mutual cooperation in energy, aircraft delivery and construction of power plant.