Geneva March 6, 2008 Iran says it is confident that the proposed “peace pipeline” project to transfer natural gas from the rich Iranian fields to Pakistan and India will be constructed once the negotiations between New Delhi and Islamabad are concluded.
“We are waiting for the talks between Pakistan and India to conclude and then the implementation of the project will be finalised,” Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told Business Standard yesterday.
“The implementation of the project will not be affected by current developments in Afghanistan and we are in regular contact with our friends in India,” he said.
The Bush administration had reportedly resorted to arm-twisting the governments in South Asia to abandon the project with Iran once and for all. More >>>
