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06 January 2010 [16:07] - Today.Az
Iran and Turkmenistan on Wednesday inaugurated a new gas pipeline to raise natural gas imports from the Central Asian state to the Islamic Republic by 20 billion cubic meters a year.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Turkmen counterpart Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov attended the inauguration ceremony of the 31-kilometer pipeline at the Dovletebad gas field in southeastern Turkmenistan.
Iran currently imports about 8 billion cubic meters of natural gas from Turkmenistan via another pipeline.
/MOJNEWS/
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