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7 MOUS ON ENERGY INKED BETWEEN IRAN AND ARMENIA
Persian Journal, Iran
July 6 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. 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.
Persian Journal, Iran
July 6 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. 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.