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THe Economic TimesIran, Pakistan dump India, ink gas contract
10 Nov, 2007
TEHRAN: Iran and Pakistan have finalised a contract for a multi-billion-dollar gas export deal scheduled to be signed within a month without the third partner India, which is yet to settle transit fee issues with Islamabad.
"The content of the Peace Pipeline contract has been finalised and all the points prepared by the two sides' legal experts have been re-read and agreed by the two sides," Iran's deputy minister in charge of the project, Hojatollah Ganimifard, was quoted as saying by the Iranian oil ministry's news service Shana on Saturday.
"The remaining points which are technical issues... must be studied within a month to make the contract ready for the simultaneous signing by the heads of the two countries," Ghanimifard said.
Tehran and Islamabad have neared a conclusion to the contract in the absence of India, a potential party to the deal....>
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Iran's Concern Over India-U.S. Ties
NEW DELHI, Nov 8: A senior Iranian official urged New Delhi on Thursday not to drift too close to Washington, emphasising his country’s wish to be a major energy supplier to a “friendly” India.
Iran’s Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi said Tehran was determined to push ahead with plans to pipe gas to India via Pakistan, despite opposition from the United States and an increasing range of sanctions.
“We hope that India’s national interests will not be influenced from outside,” Pour Mohammadi said, adding that he had discussed “the unilateralism of the Americans” with Indian government leaders.
“India is growing fast and needs a lot of energy, and we want to meet the needs of friendly countries,” he said.
New Delhi is trying to implement a nuclear energy accord with the United States aimed at bringing India — which has not signed the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — into the global atomic fuel loop for the first time.
The deal requires India, which has nuclear weapons, to allow international monitoring of its facilities. But it has been held up due to opposition from within Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s coalition government...>
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