TEHRAN (FNA)- Kenyan Parliament Speaker Kenneth Marende underlined that Nairobi is eager to model its political system on the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“We are deeply interested in modeling our political ruling and statesmanship on the Islamic Republic of Iran,” Marende said at a meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad here in Tehran on Sunday.
Reminding that Iran and Kenya share a common history of campaign against colonialism, he stressed that his country is keen to use Tehran’s experiences in different fields since Iran is an independent country which can be a role model for the other states.
He pointed to the volume of trade between Iran and Kenya which stands at $800mln, and expressed the hope that the economic relations between the two countries would further expand in the future.
Referring to the last year visit by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Kenya, Marende said the visit yielded fruitful results for his East African state.
Iran has in the past few years shown increasing willingness to expand ties and cooperation with the Africa states and offered to transfer experience and technology to several African countries.
Since taking office in 2005, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has striven hard to maximize Tehran’s relations with the African continent.
Ahmadinejad paid a visit to Kenya in early 2009, during which he said that the bilateral ties between Iran and Kenya are improving in various political, cultural and economic arenas, and that the two countries are willing to strengthen and deepen these relations in all the different sectors.
“Iran and Kenya enjoy very good capacities, abilities and opportunities in different sectors and these elements, along with the experiences of the (two) governments and nations, can serve as complementary elements to help each other,” the Iranian president said in a meeting with Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki last year.
The Kenyan president also urged accelerated implementation of the major agreements signed by the two countries, including the Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) inked by the two countries on the materialization of bilateral and technical cooperation.
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