VOL. XLIII

No. 03

17 January 2000

IRAN/TURKEY

Turkey And Iran Agree To Delay Gas Deliveries Until September 2001

Turkey and Iran have agreed to alter the provisions of their 1996 natural gas purchase/supply agreement, following a meeting in Tehran between Turkish and Iranian officials. Tehran announced in late December that it was ready to deliver 3bn cu ms/year (BCM/y) of natural gas at the Turkish border as stipulated by the agreement, but Ankara said that it could not accept the gas because...