By NNN-IRNA
Damascus : Iran’s Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrekar Shirazi and managing director of the Syrian Gas company Ali Abbas have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for export of Iran’s gas o Syria by the end of 2009, it was announced here.
The MoU Tuesday is a follow-up of an agreement signed by Iran’s Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari and his Syrian counterpart, Sufian Allaw, in September-October for export of Iran’s gas to Syria via Turkey.
Under the MoU, signed by Shirazi and Abbas, the volume of gas export to Syria will start from three million cubic metres a day and will reach nine million cubic metres per day within three years.
At the signing ceremony, the Iranian deputy minister underlined that the two countries are determined to strengthen the all-out two-way ties.
Iran is ready to bolster mutual cooperation in favour of the Iranian and Syrian nations’ interests, he said.
The Syrian minister had already expressed the hope that the MoU would be implemented in due course.
Following conclusion of the agreement, Iran and Syria will hold a trilateral meeting with Turkey in the coming months to review implementation of the project.