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Expanding Pakistan Ties Urged
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called for the expansion of Tehran-Islamabad trade and economic ties to a level deserving the relations of the two "friendly and neighboring" countries.In a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart in Islamabad on Thursday, Salehi stressed the need for Tehran and Islamabad to increase their cooperation in construction, energy and power transmission sectors, Presstv reported.
The Iranian foreign minister also called for the swift implementation of the bilateral gas pipeline project.
The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline aims to export a daily amount of 21.5 million cubic meters (or 8.7 billion cubic meters per year) of the Iranian natural gas to Pakistan.
Iran has already constructed more than 900 kilometers of the pipeline on its soil. Pakistani Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar, for her part, described progress as Iran's right, saying Islamabad considers talks within the framework of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as the best solution to the standoff over Tehran's nuclear program
Salehi arrived in Pakistan for a two-day tripartite summit which opened on Friday with the presence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Afghan and Pakistani counterparts Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari.
Salehi once again reiterated Iran's readiness for talks with the P5+1-- Britain, China, France, Russia and the US plus Germany.
Sending a letter to EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton on Wednesday, Secretary of Iran Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili formally announced Tehran's readiness to resume talks.
Iran and the P5+1 held two rounds of multifaceted talks in Geneva in December 2010 and in the Turkish city of Istanbul in January 2011.
While Tehran says it is ready to continue the talks based on common grounds, it has stressed that it will not give up any of its inalienable rights.
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