Iranian oil to reach Armenia
Tehran and Yerevan have agreed to construct a pipeline to transfer Iranian oil products to Armenia, Iranian webesites report.
The agreement was reached Saturday during the meeting of Armenian Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Armen Movsisyan and Iranian Oil Minister Masoud Mirkazemi.
The pipeline will begin from the northwestern city of Tabriz and stretch toward the Armenian border, helping Armenia meet parts of its needs for oil products from the Islamic Republic.
Mirkazemi did not elaborate on the details of the agreement, saying the volume and the value of the exports of oil products will be finalized during a meeting in the near future.
Earlier in the day, Movsisyan met with Iran's caretaker Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi and discussed the construction of a railroad linking the neighboring countries.
Spokesperson for the Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Lusine Harutyunyan, said they could not provide any information on the meeting.
