Iran and Kazakhstan have struck a deal on the construction of a wind
park in Kazakhstan to generate electricity there, Press TV reported. The
agreement with sealed between Iran's Power and Water Equipment &
Services Export Company (SUNIR) and Eurasia Invest Group in Tehran on
Saturday.
The deal will require the Iranian side to build a 50-megawatt wind
power plant in Kazakhstan's west near the country's Caspian Sea shores,
IRNA reported. The Kazakh government will finance the 110 million dollar project,
SUNIR's first major so far this year, which is due to complete in 18
months. Last month, Tehran and Astana reached agreement on a number of
economic projects including the establishment of a joint shipping
company. The planned freight shipping line would boost bilateral trade through
the Iranian port of Bandar Anzali and Kazakh port of Aktau, both on the
Caspian Sea.
Iran and Kazakhstan also decided to increase their volume of rail
transport through a railroad that links Iran, Turkmenistan and
Kazakhstan. In addition, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani received his Kazakh
counterpart Nursultan Nazarbayev on April 11 in the Iranian capital city
where the two oversaw the signing of a number of agreements in
different areas.
Rouhani later said Iranian and Kazakh officials had signed 66
documents for cooperation, worth two billion dollars, in the public and
private sectors, adding that the agreements mark a "turning point" in
mutual relations. He noted that Tehran and Astana would strengthen cooperation in
different fields of economy, agriculture, science, culture, technology
and communications.
The Iranian president added that bilateral cooperation in the Caspian
Sea including marine transportation, tourism and the determination of
the landlocked lake's legal status were also discussed during talks with
the Kazakh leader.
(en.trend.az)