MASHHAD -- Managing Director of Khorasan Province international export-import cooperative company, known as Payam Ferdows, Mohammad Mahdi Haji Ebrahimi said on Saturday that Iran's trade exposition will be held in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev in early summer.

The exposition, which will conform with international standards used in Europe, will be organized jointly by Iran's Cooperative Chamber and Ukraine's Chamber of Commerce and Industries. The fair is aimed at broadening Iran-Ukraine commercial and technical exchange.

Ebrahimi said that the items to be displayed at the upcoming fair include export goods, oil, gas and their derivatives, chemicals, industrial products, textile, leather, cars, bicycles, motorcycles, building materials, foodstuff, stationeries, home appliances and detergent, IRNA reported.

In a meeting held at the general cooperative department which was attended by a number of authorities in charge of export affairs in Khorasan Province, all industrial plants of the private sector, cooperatives and the government sector are invited to take part in the upcoming fair and display their high-quality goods with standard packing.

In the meeting, Director General of Khorasan Province Cooperatives Department, Ali Ebrahimbay Salami, underlined full application of the industrial and commercial potentials of the province.

He added, "Since the country's potentials are not put to optimum use, we are now confronted with difficulties."

He said that paying more attention to producers and creating job opportunities, revision of the old obsolete laws which block the growth of export and innovative economic moves should also be tackled by the authorities and commercial policy-makers.

He added, "Given that the new jobs created by the government are insufficient, the young applicants on the employment market might be attracted towards cooperatives and the private sector."

Referring to the need for the participation of all industrial and commercial companies in the upcoming trade fair, he said that the difficulties arising from lack of proper planning in presenting products of good quality might be solved.