IRAN-ARMENIA TIES ARE 1500 YEARS OLD: MOTTAKI
Mehr News Agency, Iran
July 20 2007
TEHRAN, July 20 (MNA) – 1,500 years of relations between Iran and
Armenia has prepared the ground for taking giant steps to boost ties,
Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said on Friday in a meeting
with his Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian in Yerevan.
Last year, during the visit of Armenian Minister of Energy Armen
Movsisyan to Iran a plan to establish a joint oil refinery was proposed
and currently the project is under study, Mottaki stated.
Oskanian went on to say that Iran and Armenia are determined to bolster
ties, and the inauguration of the gas pipeline project between the
two countries shows that they are prepared to move ahead.