NAIROBI (Xinhua) -- Kenya and Iran announced they will soon launch direct flights between Nairobi and Tehran ,said the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran Dr. Amir Abdullahian in Nairobi .

 

Abdullahian expressed his country’s desire to strengthen relations with Kenya as well as the peaceful co-existence with the African continent.

 

“ Iran’s interest is to promote mutual trust with Kenya and the regional and global peace,” Abdullahian said in Nairobi .

 

Iran exports industrial oils, carpets and chemicals to Kenya and mostly imports Kenyan tea. Already, Iran has a factory assembling tractors for Uganda , and it hopes to build a similar one in Kenya .

 

Iran also has big ambitions to extend trade in its pharmaceuticals. It funds two clinics in Nairobi – one on Ngong Road and the other on Park Road – that are stocked with Iranian pharmaceuticals and are overseen by Iranian doctors.

 

Analysts say for Kenya , Iran exemplifies a breed of country at a certain level of technological development which has the appropriate technology and expertise to be applied here more easily than is the case with more industrialized countries.

 

Kenya ’s Permanent Secretary in the ministry of foreign affairs Thuita Mwangi expressed the government’s satisfaction with the cordial relations between Iran and Kenya .

 

He said that the two countries cooperate in many areas including education, technology and culture.In the last decade, Kenya and Iran have exchanged several high level visits between Nairobi and Tehran .