MOSCOW – Pakistan and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding(MoU) on implementing a project to build an underwater gas pipeline fromIran to Pakistan and India, the Russian Energy Ministry said in a statementyesterday.
“The memorandum provides for the identification of authorized organizationsthrough which the project will be supported, including during thefeasibility study, identification of the resource base, configuration androute of the gas pipeline,” the statement said.
Now Russia will have to inform Iran and India about the signing, afterwhich it expects to sign a similar document with India, Yanovsky said inthe statement.
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The project was frozen in 2013 due to the imposition of sanctions againstIran, but its revival started in 2017. In November 2017, Russia and Iransigned a memorandum that envisaged Russian support for gas supplies fromIran to India.
