01 October 2016
Athens – Governor of Central Bank of Greece in a meeting with his Iranian counterpart Valiollah Seif said that Athens supports Iran's joining the international banking system.

'We welcome joining of Iran's banking system to international system and we are ready to expedite the expansion of banking relations between Athens and Tehran,' the Greek Central Bank governor said. 

The governors of the central banks of Iran and Greece explored avenues for the expansion of their banking relations, and underlined the importance of the relations as a prelude to the broadening of trade and economic cooperation. 

Seif, for his part, said that the record of relations and historical and cultural commonalities between the two countries as well as good economic relations in the past helps to boost trade transactions and economic activies between Iran and Greece through expediting restoration of brokerage relations between the two countries' banks.

© IRNA 2016