Iran-Ghana-Agreement
Iran and Ghana inked seven memorandums of understanding here Friday for cooperation in various fields, including oil, agriculture, health, shipping and broadcasting.

The documents were signed in Iran's Ministry of Agricultural Jihad in a ceremony attended by Iran's Minister of Agricultural Jihad Mohammad-Reza Eskandari and Ghana's visiting Foreign Minister Akwasi Asei-Adjei.

Iran's Ministry of Agricultural Jihad heads the joint economic cooperation commissions of Iran with seven African nations of Ghana, Sudan, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Sierra Leon and Ethiopia, Eskandari told the reporters covering the event.

As part of the agreement between the two countries, Iranian experts and university graduates will be dispatched to Ghana to share their technical and engineering knowhow with the African nation.

Bolstering cooperation with the African nations, especially Islamic countries, is one of Iran's foreign policy priorities, Eskandari underlined.

Eskandari also said the agreement signed between Petro-Pars Iran (PPI) and Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) indicates that the private sectors of the two countries are ready to cooperate in trade and investment fields.

Asei-Adjei, on his part, said that Ghana is an independent country pursuing its own interests, stressing that the sanctions imposed on Iran for its nuclear activities will have no effect on expansion of his country's relations with the Islamic Republic.

He invited Iran's Minister of Agriculture Jihad to participate in the fourth joint economic commission of the two countries that will be held in Akra in 2010.