Armenia to start conveying electric power to turkey on March

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Armenia is to start conveying electric power to Turkey on March, 2009, Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan said on Monday.

YEREVAN, November 24. /ARKA/. Armenia is to start conveying electric power to Turkey on March, 2009, Armenian Energy Minister Armen Movsisyan said on Monday.

Armenia will export electricity to Turkey under the agreement signed by Armenian Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Armenian High Voltage Electricity Grid and UNIT, the company importing and distributing electric power in Turkey.

Movsisyan said that under the agreement, Turkey had to put its power-conveying line in order and do all license-related paperwork within six months.

“In recent days, I received the information from Turkey that the process is running in due course”, the minister said. “We think electric power supply will start on schedule”.

Initial annual volume is planned to be 1.5 billion kilowatt with further enlargement to 3.5 billion. M.V.-0--

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