TEHRAN: Iranian Government Spokesman, Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, announced the country’s plans to boost exports of crude and engineering services to Indonesia.
“Based on the initial agreement, we are due to increase oil exports to Indonesia and build a refinery and a power plant in Indonesia,” Nobakht told reporters in a press conference in Tehran on Tuesday.
He also underlined the necessity for boosting the level of trade exchanges with Jakarta, and said, “Indonesian officials were informed that Iran has skillful engineers and active companies in area of urban renovation, and thus asked their Iranian counterparts for joint renovation of their cities through partnership with the Iranian companies and engineers.”
In relevant remarks in December, Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) for International Affairs Mohsen Qamsari announced that Tehran and Jakarta were in talks over crude supplies to Indonesia.
“The two sides have had some initial talks for oil exports, but final negotiations have not yet started,” Qamsari said.
He, meantime, said that there were still technical problems in the Indonesian refineries for receiving Iranian oil supplies.
Asked if Indonesia’s oil imports from Iran do not violate the sanctions against Iran, Qamsari said, “Indonesia is among the countries which can receive oil from Iran under the current conditions and it has no problem with sanctions for receiving Iranian oil supplies.”
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani traveled to Indonesia late in April to participate in the Asian-African Conference (AAC).
During his stay he held meetings with the high-ranking officials of the AAC member states.
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