In a meeting with the Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka Ali Sabry in Tehran on Sunday, President Raeisi highlighted the South Asian country’s great potential for development, Tasnim news agency reported.
For his part, Sabry said the Colombo government is eager to promote economic, technological, and medical cooperation with Iran.
In a separate meeting with the Sri Lankan foreign minister, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mohammad Reza Farzin, stressed that if the promotion of bilateral trade ties is to be put on the agenda of Tehran and Colombo, the central banks of the two countries should lead the monetary exchanges.