INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
TEHRAN - The founding member states of the International North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC), namely Iran, Russia, and India, gathered
for the third time in Tehran on Tuesday, to discuss solutions for promoting freight transit through the newly developed international
Minister Mehrdad Bazrpash, Head of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) Ali-Akbar Safaei, Deputy National Security Advisor of India
Vikram Misri, and Senior Aide to the president of the Russian Federation Igor Yevgenyevich Levitin.Speaking at the meeting, Bazrpash
neighborhood, networking, facilitation of trade, and intelligent and technological development of transit, and called for maximum
collaboration for the development of exchanges through the INSTC.Further in the meeting, PMO Head Ali-Akbar Safaei mentioned some of the
transit between India and Russia and other Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea countries, Safaei said.Elsewhere in the gathering, Misri
various initiatives and projects regarding the north-south corridor and has always been committed to providing its resources in the best way
corridor and asked the countries of the region to join this corridor to achieve its goals.He underlined the definition of a single policy
discussed in this meeting is defining the same framework and reaching a common understanding for all the business operators that are willing
and road routes for moving freight between India, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, Central Asia, and Europe.Geographically, Iran's territory,
particularly the Chabahar port, is very strategic for the activation of the INSTC in linking India to Russia.The INSTC is also an important
transport agenda that is expected to considerably boost the transit and trade of Iran and Russia with the countries of the Caspian Sea and
