Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki is to visit Islamabad on Friday for talks on the long-delayed gas pipeline project, said Pakistan's foreign ministry.
"During his stay in Islamabad, the Iranian foreign minister will hold talks with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi," a statement said.
"Bilateral political, economic and commercial ties including IPI (Iran-Pakistan-India) gas pipeline project and regional issueswill come under discussion during the visit," it said.
The IPI gas pipeline is a proposed 2,775-kilometer pipeline project to deliver natural gas from Iran to Pakistan and India, which is estimated to cost 7.5 billion U.S. dollars.
The long-delayed pipeline project, which has been under discussions in 1994, were deadlocked in mid-2007 when New Delhi refused to attend talks over differences on the transit fee and transportation tariff to be charged by Pakistan for Iranian gas sent to India.
The talks held in recent months have seen no breakthrough on the tri-party gas pipeline project.
Source: Xinhua
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