Bolivia, Iran strengthen relations
Bolivia: Bolivian President Evo Morales and his Iranian counterpart
Mahmud Ahmadinejad presided over the signing of several cooperation
agreements during an official visit of the Persian Head of State to the
Andean country.
The creation of hemodialysis centers in "El Alto" and "Cochabamba" is
one of the more important agreements. It was signed by the Bolivian
Health Minister Ramiro Tapia and the Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr
Mottaki in a ceremony at the Government Palace.
A cooperation memorandum to develop and industrialize evaporite
resources of the "Salar de Uyuni" (Potosi) was signed by Mottaki and the
Bolivian Mining Minister Luis Alberto EchazŁ. The evaporite resources in
Bolivia surpass by 50 percent the world's reserves.
Using the teleconference system, representatives from both countries
opened a modern milk processing plant in the community of Ivirgarzama in
the department of Cochabamba.
This is the first of five plants that are being built in the country
with the collaboration of Venezuela and Iran as part of the Lacteobol
program that will benefit Bolivian people, said Patricia Ballivi n,
minister for Production Development.
La Paz, Prensa Latina
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