TURKMENIENS PRESIDENT NIJASOW MET WITH IRANIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN
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ASCHCHABAD, 1 March (RIA "Nowosti" rIA-"Nowosti"-Korrespondent Viktor
Panow).  The president Turkmeniens, Saparmurat Nijasow, and the
Iranian minister of foreign affairs Kamal Kharrazi, met on Thursday to
a conversation.  Kharrazi is to an attendance in the turkmenischen
capital.  Was discussed a far set of questions, which concern the
bilateral relations.

On the agenda were also some problems, which are discussed during the
forthcoming attendance of the Iranian president Sayed Mohammad Khatami
in Aschchabad.  Among other things the oil and natural gas industry
concerns and the planned termination of an agreement over the export
of turkmenischen gas to Iran in this year and in the perspective
around perspectives of co-operation in.

It is not impossible the fact that the two heads of state will bring
questions during their meeting to the language which via Turkmenien to
Iran like also the participation of Iranian societies in the building
of a terminal for the envelope of liquefied gas in the port of
Turkmenbaschi (once Krasnowodsk) at the Kaspi sea concerns the
building of a pipeline from Kazakhstan.

Nijasow and Kharrazi referred to a great importance for this April of
the planned meeting of the heads of state of the five neighbor
countries of the Kaspi sea, on which the international-law status of
waters was to be determined.