Tehran, YJC. Iranian parliamentary friendship group on a trip to Gorgia have met with the country’s minister of energy.
Moayed Hosseini Sadr who was leading the Iranian delegation
to Georgia said "Iran’s consierably large energy resources and the country’s
advancements in producing new energy as well as Georgia’s huge water resources
and the state’s will to tap new energies have laid grounds for the two
countries to engage in more active cooperation on energy.”
He furtehr pointed out that Iran is hopeful to engage in
projects to stretch gas pipelines, build water-electricity power plants on
Georgian rivers and then to buy the electricity, and to build refineries and
port infrustructure in Georgia.
He expressed hope that the two sides engage in expert talks
on how to go about the plans mentioned in order to operationalize them.
The Georgian Energy Minister Kakha Kaladze in turn pointed
to Iran’s rich fossil fuel resources and said "It is a sure fact that Georgia
favors cooperation with Iran on energy,” expressing readiness on behalf of his
country to engage in talks with Iranian officials.
"The production of electricity out of wind, import of gas
from Iran to Georgia, and cooperation on the needful grounds are ready to be
accomplished to help the two countries expand their mutual cooperaiton,” he
asserted.
At the end of the meeting, Kaladze expressed hope to make a
trip to Iran in the near future and talk over the details of mutual projects
with Iranian officials.