INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY NOT HOLD NEGATIVE POSITION CONCERNING CONSTRUCTION OF IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE: HEAD OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION

ARKA News Agency, Armenia
March 20 2006

YEREVAN, March 20. /ARKA/. The international community does not hold a
negative position concerning the construction of the Iran-Armenia gas
pipeline, Head of the Armenian Parliament’s Commission for Defense,
Internal Affairs and National Security Mher Shakhgeldyan told
reporters. “No country expressed a negative attitude toward this,”
he said.

According to him, Iran’s nuclear problem has nothing to do with the
construction of the gas pipeline”.

“This gas pipeline and the supply of gas to Armenia from Iran
will create conditions for securing the country’s bigger energy
independence,” Shakhgeldyan said.

“The recent rise in Russian gas price and explosion of the gas pipeline
in North Caucasus reveal absolute necessity in other sources of gas
supply to the country,” he said.