PRETORIA (IRNA) – IRI ambassador in Tanzania announced Iran's readiness to invest in that country's housing and agricultural sectors on Wednesday in a meeting with Tanzanian Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development.

Abbas Va'ezi opened the bilateral session elaborating on the history of our country's relations with Tanzania, particularly after a visit by a special representative of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, adding, "Iran can assist your country in construction of cheap houses." Referring to the IRI Agriculture Ministry's willingness to open an office in that country's official capital city, Dodoma, Va'ezi said, "Iran ranks fifth in the world in dam building."

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian Ambassador elaborated on various technical and engineering services that Iran can offer Tanzania, including the assembly of pre-fabricated houses, adding, "Our two countries have great potentials for the further expansion of cooperation." The Tanzanian Housing Minister of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, John Magufuli, too, during the meeting expressed pleasure over the good and still improving level of his country's ties with Iran, stressing "Dodoma attaches great importance to expansion of ties with Tehran."

Appreciating the wise stands adopted by the Iranian President on significant international affairs, Magufuli said, "The world big powers assume that scientific and technological advancement is monopolized for them, denying any type of rights for the other nations in those respects."