Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Iran, Venezuela to establish joint oil company




Tehran, July 2, IRNA - Visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Monday that Iran and Venezuela have agreed to establish a joint oil company.The Venezuelan president said in a joint press conference with his Iranian counterpart on Monday in Assalouyeh of Khuzestan province that the two countries have also agreed to establish an international import and export company.
Iran, Venezuela ink 3 contracts
Assalouyeh, Khuzestan prov, July 2, IRNA -Iran and Venezuela here Monday signed three contracts at the end of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's visit to Iran.
Iran's Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh and his Venezuelan counterpart inked a contract on cooperation in the field of energy and hydrocarbons.
The petrochemical cooperation is the subject of another contract signed by managing managing directors of National Iranian Petrochemical Company (NIPC) and that of Venezuela in presence of the two presidents.
The two presidents also inked a joint communique.
Ahmadinejad and Chavez also took part in a joint press conference in South Pars Special Economic Zone elaborating on the achievements of the Venezuelan president's visit to Iran.

Iran to build 7,000 houses in Venezuela
TEHRAN, July 2 (Mehr News Agency) – Tehran and Caracas inked a document that necessitates the private sector to build 7,000 residential units in Venezuela, said the industries and mines minister here on Monday.
Attending the 4th Iran-Venezuela Joint Economic Commission meeting, Alireza Tahmasbi and Venezuelan Minister of Basic Industries and Mining Jose Khan signed 11 documents.
Tehran and Caracas had already signed 181 documents and agreements, added Tahmasbi.
He added that the documents had been inked for oil, petrochemical, energy, housing, banking, heavy industries, mines and geology, economic, political, cultural, agricultural, fishery, transportation, and health sectors.
Khan said his visit to Tehran would strengthen strategic talks and strike a balance in economic, political, social and cultural ties between the two countries.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Hmmm why am I not surprised?

On a different not - we had a wonderful fourth of July celebration here in Florida. Good food and good friends and great fireworks! God bless America!

SERENDIP said...

Pam: thank you for letting me know you and Rita had a great time. She truly deserves to have a good time after the ordeal she has been through. I'm so happy she is here in the most beautiful country in the world and I don't have to worry about her anymore...haha

Happy fourth and God bless this magnificent nation.

blank said...

Documents signed which guarantee to increase the influx of Islamic revolutionary terrorists in South America.

Rita Loca said...

No worries!!!
These joint contracts has offended many Venzuelans since we have construction workers out of work.

There is a lot of movement happening between iran and Venezuela adn many iranians in the country. We recently drove by the area shown in the pics above. the Iranians have already bulit their own houses in the area and a small mosque and school for their kids.

we were not allowed to have christian schools, but they have islamic schools.

Michael said...

If it ever comes to an open conflict with Iran, what good is Venezuela to them?

Looking at a map, they're just such natural geo-strategic allies...

SERENDIP said...

JM: That's a very disturbing development. I hope the state dept. is aware of this.