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Tasnim News Agency, Iran
nov 23 2013
Armenian President Calls for Further Bolstering of Ties with Iran
November 23, 2013 - 12:29
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - In line with Iran's new government's policy of
promoting relations with neighboring countries, the country's energy
minister was in Armenia on Friday where he met with President Serzh
Sargsyan and other Armenian officials to discuss ways of enhancing
bilateral ties.
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`We consider these relations (Iran-Armenia) as unique and wish to
deepen them. I think that your visit to the Republic of Armenia is a
sign of the similar wish by the leadership of the Islamic Republic of
Iran," said President Sargsyan during his meeting with Iran's Energy
Minister Hamid Chitchian.
In the meeting, also attended by Armenian Energy Minister Armen
Movsisyan, the officials discussed implementation of energy programs
as part of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two neighbors.
Movsisyan, too, said that there is no political problem in the two
countries' relations, and Yerevan makes every effort to further expand
economic and cultural ties with Iran.
Chitchian for his part reaffirmed his country's desire and readiness
to deepen ties with Armenia, stressing that the development of
relations with neighbors, including Armenia, is one of the priorities
of the Iranian foreign policy.
The important thing to do now is entering the executive phase of two
macro-scale energy projects in the power field, he said.
Tehran and Yerevan have established growing energy ties in recent
years. Iran has exchanged over 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas with
Armenia's electricity over the past six years.
Last year, Iran bartered some 480 million cubic meters of gas for
Armenian electricity, the largest amount of such exchange between Iran
and that neighboring country in six years.
The Armenian government is also building a second, bigger highway
leading to the Iranian border in the hope of boosting trade with Iran.
In early August, President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with his
Armenian counterpart, who had taken part in his inauguration cetemony,
that Tehran was after strengthening relations with Yerevan.
`Tehran's effort will be focused on enhancement of relations (with
Armenia) and raising the level of cooperation in all fields,' Rouhani
said on August 5.
He also pointed to cultural commonalities between the two neighboring
countries, and said, `Relations between Iran and Armenia have been
always friendly, close and on the basis of fulfillment of mutual
interests.'
Chitchian and his Armenian counterpart signed three energy-related
agreements during the latter's visit to Iran earlier this month.
Chitchian said the new agreements were related to bartering
electricity for natural gas, construction of a new hydroelectric power
plant on the border river, Aras, and further electricity exchanges
between the two countries.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/English/Home/Single/200050
nov 23 2013
Armenian President Calls for Further Bolstering of Ties with Iran
November 23, 2013 - 12:29
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - In line with Iran's new government's policy of
promoting relations with neighboring countries, the country's energy
minister was in Armenia on Friday where he met with President Serzh
Sargsyan and other Armenian officials to discuss ways of enhancing
bilateral ties.
`We consider these relations (Iran-Armenia) as unique and wish to
deepen them. I think that your visit to the Republic of Armenia is a
sign of the similar wish by the leadership of the Islamic Republic of
Iran," said President Sargsyan during his meeting with Iran's Energy
Minister Hamid Chitchian.
In the meeting, also attended by Armenian Energy Minister Armen
Movsisyan, the officials discussed implementation of energy programs
as part of mutually beneficial cooperation between the two neighbors.
Movsisyan, too, said that there is no political problem in the two
countries' relations, and Yerevan makes every effort to further expand
economic and cultural ties with Iran.
Chitchian for his part reaffirmed his country's desire and readiness
to deepen ties with Armenia, stressing that the development of
relations with neighbors, including Armenia, is one of the priorities
of the Iranian foreign policy.
The important thing to do now is entering the executive phase of two
macro-scale energy projects in the power field, he said.
Tehran and Yerevan have established growing energy ties in recent
years. Iran has exchanged over 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas with
Armenia's electricity over the past six years.
Last year, Iran bartered some 480 million cubic meters of gas for
Armenian electricity, the largest amount of such exchange between Iran
and that neighboring country in six years.
The Armenian government is also building a second, bigger highway
leading to the Iranian border in the hope of boosting trade with Iran.
In early August, President Hassan Rouhani said in a meeting with his
Armenian counterpart, who had taken part in his inauguration cetemony,
that Tehran was after strengthening relations with Yerevan.
`Tehran's effort will be focused on enhancement of relations (with
Armenia) and raising the level of cooperation in all fields,' Rouhani
said on August 5.
He also pointed to cultural commonalities between the two neighboring
countries, and said, `Relations between Iran and Armenia have been
always friendly, close and on the basis of fulfillment of mutual
interests.'
Chitchian and his Armenian counterpart signed three energy-related
agreements during the latter's visit to Iran earlier this month.
Chitchian said the new agreements were related to bartering
electricity for natural gas, construction of a new hydroelectric power
plant on the border river, Aras, and further electricity exchanges
between the two countries.
http://www.tasnimnews.com/English/Home/Single/200050