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  • TEHRAN: Iran-Armenia Ink 7 MoUs

    IRAN-ARMENIA INK 7 MOUS

    Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran
    July 5 2006

    Iranian and Armenian officials signed up seven Memorandum of
    Understanding (MoU) in the fields of energy, economic and industrial
    infrastructures, legal and cultural heritage cooperation here
    Wednesday evening.

    The MoUs were signed by officials in the presence of President Mahmoud
    Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian.

    For one document, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his
    Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian signed an MoU concerning Iran's
    development aids in the field of industrial and economic infrastructure
    for Armenia.

    In another MoU, Energy Minister Parviz Fattah and Armen Movsisyan
    signed a cooperation agreement in the field of energy.

    The two countries agreed in another document to cooperate in the
    field of legal issues.

    Iran's Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-rad and Armenian Foreign Minister
    Vartan Oskanian inked an agreement about extraditing criminals.

    Dissemination of information in the field of cultural heritage was
    another MoU signed up by officials from Iran's Cultural Heritage
    Organization and Armenian Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs.

    Also agreement about financing electricity power line project was
    signed.

    In the last MoU, the two countries agreed on the implementing program
    of the third electricity power line between Iran and Armenia.

    Armenia is located in the Caucasus region and borders with Georgia
    in the north, Azerbaijan east, Turkey west and Iran south and it does
    not have access to the open sea.

    Armenia does not have any oil or gas resources, but has rich mines
    of gold, copper, zinc and lead.

    The country achieved its independence on September 21, 1991 from the
    former Soviet Union.

    Armenia's population is about 3,300,000 according to the census
    on 2002.
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