"We intend to gradually increase the volume of Tehran-Astana trade exchanges by up to five times," President Rouhani told reporters in Astana on Tuesday.
The Iranian president pointed to the grounds on which the two nations plan to widen their ties and exchanges, and said, "The two countries will increase their cooperation in different areas, including energy and transportation."
President Rouhani also referred to the launch of Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway, and said, "Kazakhstan can transit around five million tons of its export commodities to Iran's Southern ports per year once the new Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway starts operation."
President Rouhani left Tehran for a bi-nation tour of Central Asia on Monday.
The Iranian president is accompanied by a high-ranking political and economic delegation, including a number of cabinet members.
Iranian and Kazakh officials in a meeting in Astana on Tuesday signed several cooperation agreements in different areas.
The agreements were signed during a ceremony attended by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Kazakh counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev in Kazakhstan's capital .
The cooperation pacts covered a wide range of areas, including international transportation, trade, industry and five-year cooperation between the two countries' foreign ministries.
President Rouhani left Astana for Dushanbe earlier this morning to attend the 14th summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and discuss bilateral ties with participants in the high-profile meeting.
