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]]>According to Fars News Agency, Gholam-Hossein Shafeie noted, “Cooperation between the two countries (Iran and Armenia) is of special importance in energy security and in the near future, Iran’s gas can be transferred to Europe via Georgia and Black Sea.”
Shafeie accompanied President Hassan Rouhani’s delegation during the three-nation tour of Central Asia, which included Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan from December 21-23.
He said Iran and Armenia have in recent years been strategic partners in the region.
Iran and Armenia, he noted, can cooperate in the exchange of technical and engineering services as well as in energy, petrochemicals, power transfer, dam building, establishment of factories, mining, agriculture, tourism, particularly eco-tourism and health tourism, cooperation in a third country and cooperation between the small and medium-sized companies.
He suggested the transportation of Armenian goods to other countries, especially China, India and Southeast Asia, via Iran’s Persian Gulf ports.
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]]>In a statement, Armenia’s Ministry of Energy, Infrastructure and Natural Resources said a memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed recently to increase gas imports from Iran.
The statement said that the MoU was signed between Armenia’s Energaimpex company and the National Iranian Gas Export Company during a visit by an Armenian delegation to Tehran from October 31 to November 1, reported Asbarez.com news service.
It added that Yerevan is seeking to increase natural gas imports from Iran in the near future without specifying how much more gas will be imported based on the MoU.
Armenia currently imports up to 500 million cubic meters of Iranian gas annually through a pipeline built in 2008.
Iran had already announced that it plans to triple gas exports to Armenia by 2019 and also sell gas to Georgia through Armenia.
Earlier in July, Iran’s Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh told reporters in Tehran that Georgia has also sealed a basic agreement with Iran to import gas from Iran through Armenia.
He said Iran plans to conduct a trial export of gas to Georgia through Armenia within the next few months. If the trial proves successful, Iran will finalize the agreement to export gas to Georgia, he added.
The transit of gas to Georgia through Armenia will be carried out through a new organization that will be established by Iran and Armenia, Zanganeh said.
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