MINISTER SAYS ARMENIA DRAWING UP FEASIBILITY STUDIES FOR IRAN OIL PIPELINE

Arminfo
5 Feb 07

Yerevan, 5 February: Feasibility studies for a project to construct
an Iran-Armenia oil pipeline and an oil refinery in Meghri are being
drawn up in Armenia, the Armenian energy minister, Armen Movsisyan,
has said in an exclusive interview with Arminfo.

"I plan to pay a visit to Tehran in the near future to discuss the
issue of implementing the project," the minister said, adding that
the talk is about the construction of an oil pipeline from the oil
refinery in the Iranian town of Tabriz to Armenia’s border town of
Meghri, where an oil refinery is to be built.

The minister recalled that the project has existed since 1990. However,
a real opportunity to implement it has only now emerged.

[Passage omitted: printed details]
From: Baghdasarian