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Pakistani FM: Islamabad Not to Succumb to Pressures over Gas Pipeline its gas pipeline project with Iran despite the US pressures and warnings. TEHRAN (FNA)- Pakistan's Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar underlined the country's need for energy resources, and voiced Islamabad's determination to move ahead on the pipeline due to transfer Iran's gas to the energy-hungry country. Speaking at the Air University in the Pakistani province of Multan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said Islamabad will not give in to foreign pressures to abandon its joint gas pipeline project with Iran. Islamabad will make the decisions regarding the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline based on its own interests, Gilani added. The 2700-kilometer long pipeline was to supply gas for Pakistan and India which Hina Rabbani Khar has said that no pressure regarding the Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project would be tolerated. The foreign minister made the remark in an exclusive interview with Geo television in Islamabad on Thursday. She said Pakistan needs energy and will pursue Iran gas pipeline and other projects to meet requirements, the Islamic republic news agency reported. are suffering a lack of energy sources, but India has evaded talks. Last year Iran and Pakistan declared they would finalize the agreement bilaterally if India continued to be absent in the meetings. According to the project proposal, the pipeline will begin from Iran's Assalouyeh Energy Zone in the south and stretch over 1,100 km through Iran. In Pakistan, it will pass through Baluchistan and Sindh but officials now say the route may be changed if China agrees to the project. Earlier this month, Islamabad officials reiterated Pakistan's resolve to expedite Sayfa 9
The gas will be supplied from the South Pars field. The initial capacity of the pipeline will be 22 billion cubic meters of natural gas per annum, which is expected to be later raised to 55 billion cubic meters. It is expected to cost $7.4 billion. http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.ph p?nn=9012152929 Tehran Voices Support for Political Solution to Disputes in Syria TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran once again said that it opposes foreign meddling in the Syrian internal affairs and supports any plan which seeks political solution to current standoff in the East Mediterranean country. be solved through a political solution away from hastiness and foreign intervention. "The Islamic Republic of Iran will agree to any initiative which will guarantee the Syrian nation's demands, facilitate reforms announced by the Syrian President (Bashar al-Assad)…, lead to stability and peace in the country, and pave the way for a national dialogue," Mehman-Parast stressed. The remarks by the Iranian spokesman came after the United Nations Security Council extended its support for the sixpoint peace plan proposed by the UN- Arab League envoy, Kofi Annan, for a UNsupervised halt to the current fighting in Syria. In a statement on Wednesday, the council called on the Syrian government to "immediately" carry out the peace plan proposed by Annan. Reacting to a recent Security Council statement on Syria which was adopted on Wednesday, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ramin Mehman-Parast noted on Thursday that the crisis in Syria should Annan's six-point plan calls for a UNsupervised halt to fighting, a daily twohour humanitarian pause to hostilities, withdrawal of government troops and heavy weapons from crisis-hit cities and access to all areas affected by the fighting. Sayfa 10
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