Iran, Armenia Sign Seven MoUs

July 6, 2006

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iran and Armenia signed up seven Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) in the fields of energy, economic and industrial infrastructures, legal and cultural heritage cooperation here Wednesday evening.

The MoUs were signed by officials in the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Armenian counterpart Robert Kocharian.

For one document, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Armenian counterpart Vartan Oskanian signed an MoU concerning Iran's development aids in the field of industrial and economic infrastructure for Armenia.

In another MoU, Energy Minister Parviz Fattah and Armen Movsisyan signed a cooperation agreement in the field of energy.

The two countries agreed in another document to cooperate in the field of legal issues.

Iran's Justice Minister Jamal Karimi-rad and Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian inked an agreement about extraditing criminals.

Dissemination of information in the field of cultural heritage was another MoU signed up by officials from Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization and Armenian Ministry of Culture and Youth Affairs.

Also agreement about financing electricity power line project was signed.

In the last MoU, the two countries agreed on the implementing program of the third electricity power line between Iran and Armenia.


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