OSKANIAN: YEREVAN READY TO EXPLOIT IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE

PanARMENIAN.Net
09.01.2007 14:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Iran-Armenia gas pipeline will work, as was
supposed, on March of 2007, told Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan
Oskanian to a news conference in Yerevan. In his words, physically
the pipeline is ready, but it needs to be tested in order to eliminate
defects. "The gas pipeline will be exploited in time.

As to Iranian side statement that Armenia is not ready to exploit
the pipeline, I do not consider it right," Oskanian underlined.

Alongside, he stressed that during the last year the Armenian-Iranian
relations underwent new development.

The Armenian Foreign Minister reminded that Armenian President Robert
Kocharian had a working visit to Tehran on July. "The Armenian-Iranian
relations have regional importance, the main point of which is
Armenia’s joining to the transportation corridor ‘North-South’. In this
regard a meeting was held in Yerevan on September and the Armenian,
Georgian and Iranian Ministers of Energy participated in the meeting,"
Oskanian said.

He also underscored the uninterrupted work of Meghri custom-house on
the border of Armenia and Iran. In his words, talks are being held
on opening a RA consulate general in Tabriz.