The secondjointmeeting of Iran and Turkeybegan in the city of Shiraz over the formation of ECO REM with participation of Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) Secretariat.
The new round of negotiations is also attended by representatives of other ministries of the two countries.
The conference has started in line with reached agreements of the 26th session of ECO Regional Planning Council (RPC) and hasbeenattendedbyrepresentatives from ECO Energy Committee, an 8-strong Turkish delegation comprising officials of the neighbor countrys Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Turkeys Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA) as well as Turkish Electricity Transmission Co. (TE?A?).
Moreover, the congress isattended by representatives from Irans Energy Ministry, Iran Power Generation and Transmission Company (Persian acronym: TAVANIR), EnergyMinistry as well as Ministry of Oil.
Currently, Iran is exchanging energy with all border countries and so farelectrical exchanges have been conducted with Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Turkey, Armenia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan Republic, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Turkeys private sector is eager to purchase electricity from Iran as certain talks have so far been conducted on the issue.
In time with the Iranian Oil Ministrys plan to launch indirect electricity export to Turkey by boosting natural gas exports to the neighboring country for production and sale of electricity, Iraq has turned into atraditional customerof Iranian electricity over the past few years.
By Mehr News Agency
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