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ARMENIA AND IRAN SET NEW DATE FOR POWER PLANT CONSTRUCTION
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June 8 2012
India
After years of delay, Armenia and Iran will finally start building
this August a major hydroelectric plant on a fast flowing river
marking their border.
Official Armenian and Iranian sources said an agreement to that effect
was reached during Iranian Energy Minister Mr Majid Namjou's weekend
visit to Yerevan.
Mr Namjou met with President Mr Serzh Sarkisian and Energy and Natural
Resources Minister Mr Armen Movsisian for talks reportedly focusing on
Armenian and Iranian energy projects that have fallen behind schedule.
Work on the hydroelectric plant will start soon.
Ms Lusine Harutiunian a spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of
Energy and Natural Resources said that Mr Namjou and Mr Movsisian
agreed to kick off the project's implementation in August.
Report said that more precise date for the project launch August 22.
It said that the construction work will get underway simultaneously
on both banks of the Arax River that separates Armenia and Iran.
Mr Serzh Sarkisian president of Armenia meets with Iran's Energy
Minister Mr Majid Namjou in Yerevan June 2nd 2012. The Armenian and
Iranian governments agreed, in principle to build the 140 MW facility
about a decade ago and have since been working out practical modalities
of the project estimated to cost USD 350 million.
Mr Movsisian announced in July 2010 the impending start of its
construction by Iranian firms. The Armenian government will pay for
its 50 percent share in the project with future electricity supplies to
the Islamic Republic. The minister said late last year that the power
plant's construction has still not begun because of situations in Iran.
Also having fallen behind schedule are long standing plans by Yerevan
and Tehran to build a third high voltage transmission line connecting
the two countries' power grids and a pipeline to ship Iranian fuel
to Armenia. Iran's President Mr Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Mr Sarkisian
pledged to speed up the implementation of all three projects when
they met in Yerevan last December.
Mr Sarkisian and Mr Namjou agreed that this will give a further
considerable boost to Armenian and Iranian trade which rose by 13.6%
to USD 323.4 million last year. The Armenian leader was reported to
describe Iran as his country's reliable neighbor and good friend.
SteelGuru
http://www.steelguru.com/middle_east_news/Armenia_and_Iran_set_new_date_for_power_plant_cons truction/267593.html
June 8 2012
India
After years of delay, Armenia and Iran will finally start building
this August a major hydroelectric plant on a fast flowing river
marking their border.
Official Armenian and Iranian sources said an agreement to that effect
was reached during Iranian Energy Minister Mr Majid Namjou's weekend
visit to Yerevan.
Mr Namjou met with President Mr Serzh Sarkisian and Energy and Natural
Resources Minister Mr Armen Movsisian for talks reportedly focusing on
Armenian and Iranian energy projects that have fallen behind schedule.
Work on the hydroelectric plant will start soon.
Ms Lusine Harutiunian a spokeswoman for the Armenian Ministry of
Energy and Natural Resources said that Mr Namjou and Mr Movsisian
agreed to kick off the project's implementation in August.
Report said that more precise date for the project launch August 22.
It said that the construction work will get underway simultaneously
on both banks of the Arax River that separates Armenia and Iran.
Mr Serzh Sarkisian president of Armenia meets with Iran's Energy
Minister Mr Majid Namjou in Yerevan June 2nd 2012. The Armenian and
Iranian governments agreed, in principle to build the 140 MW facility
about a decade ago and have since been working out practical modalities
of the project estimated to cost USD 350 million.
Mr Movsisian announced in July 2010 the impending start of its
construction by Iranian firms. The Armenian government will pay for
its 50 percent share in the project with future electricity supplies to
the Islamic Republic. The minister said late last year that the power
plant's construction has still not begun because of situations in Iran.
Also having fallen behind schedule are long standing plans by Yerevan
and Tehran to build a third high voltage transmission line connecting
the two countries' power grids and a pipeline to ship Iranian fuel
to Armenia. Iran's President Mr Mahmud Ahmadinejad and Mr Sarkisian
pledged to speed up the implementation of all three projects when
they met in Yerevan last December.
Mr Sarkisian and Mr Namjou agreed that this will give a further
considerable boost to Armenian and Iranian trade which rose by 13.6%
to USD 323.4 million last year. The Armenian leader was reported to
describe Iran as his country's reliable neighbor and good friend.