IRNA, Iran
March 6 2005
Iran, Ukraine discuss gas transfer project
Tehran, March 6, IRNA — Iran and Ukraine in Kiev on Sunday discussed
implementation of a pipeline project to transfer Iran’s gas to
Ukraine.
The Ukrainian deputy minister of oil and energy in a meeting with
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for International Affairs Hadi Nejad
Hosseinian during the third meeting of the two countries’ energy
commission, called for annual purchase of 15 billion cubic meters of
gas from Iran via the pipeline.
The routes for laying the gas pipeline will either pass through ran,
Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Ukraine or through Iran, Armenia,
Georgia, Black Sea and Ukraine.
The two countries are set to dispatch representatives and experts to
a meeting, scheduled to be held in Tehran in May, 2005, to discuss
the financial resources and construction and implementation of the
project as well as the amount of gas to be exported. Tehran and Kiev
will then make the final decision.
The Ukrainian official voiced his country’s interest in contribution
to Iran’s oil exploitation and development projects and called for
further cooperation between the two sides in various oil and gas
sectors.