VOL. XXXVII

NO. 48

29-AUGUST-1994

Iran

Iranian And Turkmen Leaders Agree On Gas Pipeline

Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and the President ofTurkmenistan, Mr. Saparmurat Niyazov, attended a ceremony south of Tehran on 24August to mark their agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline designed tocarry natural gas from the former Soviet Republic of Turkmenistan to Europe viaIran and Turkey. The deal was signed in Tehran by Presidents Rafsanjani andNiyazov on 23 August in the...