This content was published on December 19, 2022 – 8:46 p.m. December 19, 2022 – 8:46 p.m
San José, 19 December (EFE).- The governments of Nicaragua and Iran have signed a cooperation agreement in several areas, including energy, agriculture and trade, among others, Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry reported on Monday.
The so-called “Comprehensive Cooperation Program between the Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Government of the Republic of Nicaragua” was signed in Tehran on Sunday by Nicaraguan Foreign Minister Denis Moncada and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, according to official information.
“This instrument that we are signing today aims to further strengthen relations of friendship and cooperation based on the principles of equality and mutual respect.”
This is “particularly in the fields of agriculture-animal husbandry, energy-minerals, economy-trade, science-technology, banking-finance and insurance, defense and security, health and sanitation, investment and other areas of common interest,” Moncada said. during the signing as quoted by the Government of Nicaragua.
According to information from the Nicaraguan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this is the 14th agreement signed between the two countries on cooperation issues so far in 2022.
This Monday, Secretary of State Moncada said that Nicaragua, along with Iran, which he called a “brother country,” would face the hegemony of the United States, a country he has again accused of alleged “violations of international law.”
Moncada reiterated that the government, led by former Sandinista guerrilla fighter Daniel Ortega, believes in “building a better, multipolar world,” as announced by Russia and China.
The presence of Nicaraguan Foreign Minister in Tehran coincides with protests that have rocked Iran since the death of Mahsa Amini in September after he was arrested by morality police for improperly wearing the Islamic veil.
Relations between Nicaragua and Iran improved from January 2007 when Ortega returned to power.
Last January, Tehran sent Mohsen Rezai to Ortega’s presidential inauguration ceremony, one of those indicted by the Argentine judiciary for the 1994 attack on the Jewish mutual society AMIA in Buenos Aires. EFE
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