Mukherjee predicts Iran will be India’s biggest energy provider
Tehran Times Political Desk

TEHRAN – Indian Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee has predicted that Iran will be the biggest energy provider to India. Mukherjee has also expressed hope that India would participate in Iran’s oil and gas projects especially in South Pars Gas field.

The India top diplomat arrived in Tehran for a three-day visit as Tehran and New Delhi are holding their joint economic commission meeting.

In a statement issued on Saturday, the Indian foreign minister also reiterated that his country is determined to push ahead for the implementation of the 2,600-kilometer Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline which would carry Iranian gas to Pakistan and India.

In the statement Mukherjee called for talks between India and Pakistan to resolve “existing problems” in order to take practical steps for implementing the pipeline project which is also known as “peace pipeline.”

Mukherjee said, “An enhancement of traditional economic ties between Iran and India will strengthen the economies of the two countries.”

Meanwhile, Iranian Oil Minister Gholam-Hossein Nozari announced that India has expressed its willingness to invest in Phase 12 of South Pars Gas Field which was agreed by Iran.

“The country has expressed its interest to invest in Phase 12 of the South Pars which we also announced our readiness,” Nozari said in a joint press conference with Mukherjee.

Nozari also said India is interested in constructing “the peace pipeline” and doing projects in Iran’s “Fars Oil Field.”

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