President Rouhani and Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi were overseeing the signing ceremony of the bilateral cooperation documents by ministers and other high-ranking officials of their respective countries.
The agreements were mainly in the industrial fields including forestry, road and railways buildings, mining and other infrastructure, banking, insurance, health, agriculture and gas industry.
Additional economic contracts are scheduled to be signed on Tuesday which will reportedly amount to 18.4 billion dollars.
Prior to the signing of documents, Rouhani and Renzi held a meeting on promotion of Iran-Italy relations and discussed regional developments.
