TEHRAN — In a bid to help boost their trade exchanges, Iran and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to set up a joint trade databank.

Iran and Kyrgyzstan are planning to set up a joint trade data bank to help boost trade and economic relations between the two nations, said here, on Saturday, Mohammad Reza Ramezani, the director of Iran’s Chamber of Cooperative in his visit with Avaz Bek Atahanov, the Kyrgyz ambassador in Tehran.

He also called for the dispatch of a trade delegation from Iran’s Chamber of Cooperative to the Central Asian republic and noted that the move would contribute to the development of trade ties between the two nations.

For his part, Atahanov expressed his satisfaction over the growing trend in the Iran and Kyrgyzstan trade and economic relations and said that if Iran offered Kyrgyzstan its expertise in the cooperative sector, trade and commercial ties between the two countries would be developed significantly.