US opposes Iran-Pak-India gas pipeline
Jan 5, 2006
The US is 'absolutely opposed' to a natural gas pipeline project linking Iran with Pakistan and India, a State Department official reiterated.
'The US government supports multiple pipelines from the region but remains absolutely opposed to pipelines involving Iran,' senior State Department official Steven Mann told a forum in Washington organized by Johns Hopkins University.
Mann, the special negotiator for Eurasian conflicts in the State Department's bureau of European affairs, spoke after an ADB expert told the forum that the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline and another planned pipeline project linking Turkmenistan, Afghanistan and Pakistan were both feasible.
Dan Millison, ADB's senior energy specialist, said that his assessment was based purely on economic grounds and demand from India and Pakistan.
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