Russia’s gas giant denies buying Iran-Armenia gas pipeline

Arminfo
7 Apr 06

Yerevan, 7 April: Gazprom has refused to take the Iran-Armenia gas
pipeline. The Gazprom open-type joint-stock company has corrected the
report on the 25-year agreement signed by the Armenian government
which the company’s public relations department published earlier. The
agreement defines strategic principles of cooperation in gas and
energy projects in Armenia.

The provisions regarding to the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline have been
fully omitted from the new version of the press release which has been
posted on Gazprom’s official website. The initial version of the press
release, sent to the mass media on 6 April, said that Gazprom will
take the ArmRosgazprom closed-type joint stock company from the
Armenian government, including a 40-kilometer section of the Iran
-Armenia gas pipeline and the fifth energy unit of the Razdan power
plant, under the agreement. It also said that the Armenian government
will give ArmRosgazprom the functions of the project owner of the
construction of the second section of the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline,
which is 197 km long.

The new version of the document only mentioned taking the fifth energy
unit of the Razdan power plant from the Armenian government.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS