YEREVAN (Interfax) — Georgia is interested in the idea of importing Iranian gas via the Iran-Armenia pipeline, Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili said in an interview with the Armenian press during a visit to Yervan this week.
The Georgian authorities are ready to look at this idea as they aim to develop transit shipments through the Caucuses, she said.
Earlir, Armenian Foreign Minister Vardan Oskanian was cited as saying that in talks held in Teheran at the start of July with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Iranian authorities on cooperation in Iranian gas transportation to Europe, two transit options were discussed.
One envisages transportation through Armenia and the other through Azerbaijan. Iranian and Georgian media have reported that Georgia’s Energy Ministry prefers the Azerbaijan option.
A government delegation from Armenia, headed by Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, will visit Tbilisi next week, the Armenian government told Interfax. The delegation will include Energy Minister Armen Movsisian.
During the visit, there will be a meeting of the intergovernmental economic cooperation committee and discussions on cooperation in the energy sector, including gas.
Earlier, Georgian Energy Minister Niki Gilauri said Saakashvili had reached an agreement on natural gas supplies via Azerbaijan while he was in Iran. The minister said deliveries could begin in January-February 2005.
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