"Economic and trade ties with other countries are of utmost significance to us," said Larijani, pointing to the vast hydrocarbon reserves Iran enjoys in its oil and gas fields.
"A number of major construction projects are being carried out in Iran… and other interested countries can participate in their fulfillment," he said.
Martin Schulz has arrived in the Iranian capital city of Tehran on Saturday for meetings with senior Iranian officials aimed at reinforcing ties between the European Union (EU) and the Islamic Republic.
He said Iran and the EU, having seen the distance between them grow in the past, now have an opportunity to grow closer to one another.
Responding to a question on the Vienna talks on Syria, the European Parliament’s chief said the right of the Syrian people to decide about their political future cannot be ignored.
It is the first visit by the head of the 751-seat European Parliament to Iran, which comes after Iran and the P5+1 countries – the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia plus Germany – finalized the text of an agreement over Tehran’s nuclear program in Vienna.
Two weeks after the agreement was reached, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini also travelled to the Islamic Republic, saying that the 28-nation bloc seeks to revive relations with Iran in all areas.
The European Parliament is the directly elected parliamentary institution of the EU, which along with the European Commission and the EU Council, exercises the legislative function of the 28-nation bloc.
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