| Ahmadinejad pushes India gas deal
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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, has visited India for talks on an energy pact which would involve building a lucrative gas pipeline through Pakistan and India.
"The talks were positive and we hope that in the near future we will finalise the project," Ahmadinejad, speaking through an interpreter, told a news conference after the talks.
India imports more than 70 per cent of its energy needs and has been racing to secure new supplies of oil and gas.
However, the project has been stalled by disputes over price and transit fees as well as security fears over its passage through Pakistan.
The $7bn deal is also opposed by the US, which wants to isolate Iran over its nuclear programme.
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"It will be a political dialogue at the highest level which will smoothen the way for the pipeline between Iran and India," he said.
Sawhney said that US would have no say over anything, once the deal between India and Iran came through.
Ahmadinejad said that the project was not just a commercial deal as India and Iran "shared common roots and had deep historic and cultural ties".
| Hmmm...I wasn't India was on the list of Iran client states. Al Jazeera English - News - Ahmadinejad Pushes India Gas Deal
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