Iran and Armenia ink two MoU on building Aras power plant

Moscow, June 24, IRNA - Iran's Deputy Energy Minister and Armenia's Energy and Natural Resources Minister signed two Memoranda of Understandings (MOUs) on construction of a hydro-electric power plant on Aras River.

According to a report by Islamic Republic of Iran's Embassy in Armenia
on Monday, Rasoul Zargar, Iran's Deputy Energy Minister in Water
Affairs, discussed the outlook of cooperation between Iran and Armenia
concerning generation of electricity and issues related to
construction of a hydro-electrical power plant on Aras River with the
Armenian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Armen Movsisyan and his
deputy in Armenia's capital city, Yerevan.

The principle agreement on construction of Aras hydro-electrical power
plant was signed during President Ahmadinejad's state visit to Armenia
in the year 2006.