IRAN ALLOWS ARMENIA TO USE ITS PORT IN CASPIAN – IRANIAN MINISTER

Arminfo, Yerevan
20 Jul 07

Armenia, 20 July: Armenia can join the North-South transport corridor
and use the Iranian port of Anzali in the Caspian Sea, Iranian Foreign
Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said in Yerevan today. Mottaki is also a
co-chair of the Iranian-Armenian intergovernmental commission.

The Iranian minister said that the sides had already reached agreement
to this effect. Armenian entrepreneurs can use the Iranian port
for shipments to the Kazakh port of Aktau and the Russian port of
Astrakhan.

Apart from this, the sides will build a second Iran-Armenia road. They
also plan to build a railway line.

All this will help substantially increase trade between Iran and
Armenia and raise relations to a qualitatively new level, Mottaki
added.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress