BAKU, Azerbaijan, Mar.16
Trend:
Iranian President has indicated the necessity to approve the FATF-related bills so the Central Bank of Iran can interact with the world.
"The Central Bank of Iran wants to transact with the world and purchase or sell bonds, invest and attract investment, the friendly countries want to work with the CBI. We should be assured that organizations would not have a problem with working with Iran," said Hassan Rouhani, Trend reports citing IRNA.
"The government the FATF four related bills to the parliament and it was approved and the mistakes were solved in the Guardian Council but it got held up that is strange, Iran is fighting corruption and a leading force in fighting terrorism, therefore, others should be convinced to finalize the issue," he said referring to approve the FATF related bills.
"We are the best country in fighting with corruption and money laundering and financing terrorism and our neighbor countries are aware of it. The hand of the Central Bank of Iran should be open to interacting with the world, the CBI is supporting banks and our banks are interested to interact with the world," the president added.
"The Central Bank of Iran has faced with sanction and Coronavirus situation but despite difficulties the CBI has provided the money for the purchase of 16 million doses of COVAX vaccine and purchased other vaccines from other countries," Rouhani noted.
In February, the Paris-based FATF lifted the suspension of its counter-measures on Iran that was introduced in 2016. The organization stated Iran will remain on its blacklist until it ratifies the two remaining bills.
The FATF remaining bills, Palermo (convention against transnational organized crime), and terrorist financing conventions (CFT) are to be reviewed by the Expediency Council.
