NEW DEKHI – India has formally taken over the operations at Chabahar portin Iran. Iran formally handed over the port to India during a first meetingof the follow-up committee for the implementation of the Chabahar Agreementbetween Iran, Afghanistan, and India in the port city Tehran.
The sources further added that the Indian side at the meeting was led byjoint secretary (Pakistan-Afghanistan-Iran) Deepak Mittal of the externalaffairs ministry, while the Iranian team was led by Mohammad AliHassanzadeh, the deputy head of the Ports and Maritime Organisation.
“This is a major step forward in India’s efforts to support Afghanistan andalso for regional cooperation,” an official in New Delhi told HindustanTimes.
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In the meantime, Iran’s IRNA News has reported that the operation of theport has been handed over to the State-run Ports Global Limited for aperiod of ten years.
