Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance Mohammad Hosseini has said Iran was ready for cooperation with Afghanistan in all fields including cultural grounds.
Hosseini, who is in Afghanistan to attend a ceremony to introduce Ghazni as the capital city of Islamic world, expressed pleasure with this selection and said that the city is home to poets, writers, deep thinkers and elites, who have done many things for humanity. In the press conference, the minister called for Ghazni in Afghanistan and Nayshabur in Iran to be named as sister cities, because both of them have grown up scientists in the past history. Hosseini said that Iranians do not feel separated from the Afghans because of common religion, language, culture, history, literature and tradition. He continued that annually 69,000 title books are published in Iran, which can be used by Afghans too.
The minister underlined necessity of creating facilities for books to be exported from Iran to Afghanistan and added that books in the fields of poetry, novels, literature, history, religion, and children stories are published in Iran which can be used by Afghans too. Hosseini also said Iran stood ready to produce joint movies with Afghanistan, adding that we can make movies about characters, historical events and world issues. Islamic Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (ISESCO) selected Ghazni city in Afghanistan as cultural capital of the Islamic world. It had been proposed in 2007 by ISESCO that Ghazni become cultural capital of the Islamic world in the year 2013.
