August 12, 2010Iraq to facilitate Iranian gas pipeline to Syria - minister
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Oil Minister Hussein al-Shahrestani announced on Thursday Iraq’s readiness to facilitate extending Iranian gas pipeline to Syria through the Iraqi territories.
“The minister received Syrian deputy oil minister, Jawad Auji, and new Iranian Ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Danaei Danaie-Far, with whom he discussed several issues of common interest, including joint oilfields and the Iranian gas pipeline to Syria through the Iraqi territories and settling border marks,” said a ministerial statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The minister expressed Iraq’s readiness to facilitate extending the pipeline to Syria through the Iraqi territories until the Mediterranean Sea,” the statement said.
He urged the Iranian side to activate the meetings of the bilateral committees, mainly regarding settling border marks.
He also called on the Iranian companies to take part in the reconstruction operations in Basra.
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