During the meeting in the Turkish capital on Thursday, Shariatmadari and Zeybekci explored avenues for bolstering and reinvigorating of mutual cooperation in the technical and engineering areas.
During their meeting, the two ministers, who also serve as special representatives of the presidents and chairmen of the economic commission in their own countries, discussed promotion of economic and trade collaboration in a bid to achieve the 30-billion-dollar goal set for the volume of trade exchanges between the two neighboring nations.
"Turkey has achieved good successes, specially in the field of offering engineering and technical services," the Iranian minister said, contending that the two countries' collaboration in the field of technical and engineering services will help Iran promote to higher levels, as it has undertaken significant projects in these fields.
Zeybekci, for his part, said that Ankara is looking for assessing the business opportunities in Iran and Turkey and promoting joint projects.
In a relevant development in early October, high-ranking Iranian and Turkish officials in a meeting in Tehran signed four cooperation agreements.
The documents and Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) which were endorsed in the presence of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are related to the two countries' customs and banking ties as well as cooperation between their national libraries and state TV and radio organizations.
After the meeting, President Rouhani underlined that the banking ties between the two countries will further expand and they will increase trade relations using their own national currencies.
In relevant remarks in July, Iranian Communications and Information Technology Minister Mahmoud Vaezi announced that Tehran and Ankara are mulling to establish free trade relations after their agreement on preferential trade agreement in the near future.
"Iran and Turkey have agreed to do their best to convert the preferential agreement which is already in place between the two countries to a free trade agreement," Vaezi said in a meeting with Turkish economy minister in Tehran.
He pointed to the recent meetings between the Iranian and Turkish presidents, and said, "President Hassan Rouhani and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had emphasized to boot the value of the two countries' trade balance to the ceiling of $30 billion."