Fars News Agency, Iran
News number: 8706220797 22:44 | 2008-09-12

Iran-Armenia Pipeline Construction Ends

TEHRAN (FNA)- Construction work has been finished on Iran-Armenian
pipeline.

Armenian specialists are now dealing with the technical issues for the
construction of pipeline from Kacharan, the boundary region to
Yerevan, Iranian sources said.

Testing of transportation of Iranian gas will begin within the next
few days.

"Armenia will receive from 2.3 billion to 2.5 billion cubic meters of
gas from Tehran through this pipeline a year," Armenian Minister of
Industry and Energy Armen Movsisyan said.

"The opening of the Iranian-Armenian pipeline will guarantee the
energy security for Armenia", he noted. According to Movsisyan, the
pipeline will secure Armenia against energy problems in the cases of
crisis.

The Armenian minister also said that his country would soon sign a new
gas agreement with Russia. However, Movsisyan declined to mention the
price for gas in the agreement with Russia.