Iranian Energy Minister Majid Namjou, who is on an official visit to Kabul, submitted a message from President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai.

In his message, President Ahmadinejad has underlined the necessity for Iranian companies' more active participation and partnership in Afghanistan's water and power sectors, and called on Kabul officials to pave the way for these companies' increased presence and operation in Afghanistan.

In his meeting with President Karzai on Sunday, Namjou also discussed mutual cooperation in different economic fields, including water and electricity.

The Iranian energy minister arrived in Afghanistan today to discuss further expansion of ties and energy cooperation between the two nations.

During his stay in Afghanistan, Namjou also attended the inaugural ceremony of two Iranian-made electric turbines today.

Two diesel turbines with the power generation capacities of 25 megawatts became operational on Sunday. Afghanistan's Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan was also present at the inaugural ceremony of the Iranian-made electric turbines.

Namjou described his meeting with Afghan Energy and Water Minister Ismail Khan as positive and constructive.

Iran has helped Afghanistan in upgrading g its electricity system and half of Herat city's electricity needs are supplied by the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Iran is one of the most important donors to Afghanistan which has kept its promises to help to the reconstruction of the war-hit country.

Iran has built some roads, power transmission lines, and border stations, among the other infrastructure projects which would better link the two nations.
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