http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-237/0801084628131148.htm
Iran's gas to be exported to Syria by 2009
Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrekar Shirazi and Managing Director of
Syrian Gas company Ali Abbas signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on
Monday for export of Iran's gas o Syria by the end of 2009, it was announced on
Tuesday.
The MoU is a follow up of an agreement signed by Iran's Oil Minister Gholam
Hossein Nozari and his Syrian Counterpart Sufian Allaw in September-October for
export of Iran's gas to Syria via Turkey.
Under the MoU, signed by Shirazi and Abbas, the volume of gas export to Syria
will start from three million cubic meters a day and will reach nine million
cubic meters per day within three years long.
At the signing ceremony, the Iranian deputy minister underlined that the two
countries are determined to strengthen the all-out two-way ties.
Iran is ready to bolster mutual cooperation in favor of the Iranian and Syrian
nations' interests, he said.
The Syrian minister had already expressed the hope that the MoU would be
implemented in due course.
Following conclusion of the agreement, Iran and Syria will hold a trilateral
meeting with Turkey in the coming months to review implementation of the
project.
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