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Iran, Armenia Call For Increase In Energy Exchanges

Tehran, Oct 19, IRNA – Iranian Energy Minister Hamid Chitchian and his Armenian counterpart Yervand Zakharian, in a meeting in Tehran on Saturday, called for energy exchanges to be increased. In a joint press conference after the meeting, Chitchian said that there has been good cooperation between the two countries over the past two decades in the field of energy. He said the two sides agreed to launch the third energy transfer line between Iran and Armenia and construction of two hydro-electric power plants on both sides of the Aras River. The Armenian minister, for his part, expressed hope that work on the projects would begin soon. Zakharian said that once these projects come on stream, energy exchange between Iran and Armenia will increase two to three folds./end

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