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Iran offers more gas to Turkey

January 6, 2009
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TEHRAN, Iran—Iran is prepared to increase gas exports to Turkey after Ankara's supplies -- along with those of several European nations -- were cut due to a dispute between Russia and the Ukraine, an Iranian diplomat said Tuesday.

Iran's official IRNA news agency quoted the country's economic attache in Turkey as saying Tehran is "prepared to put extra gas at Turkey's disposal in tune with its technical capability and potential" to compensate for the halt in Russian gas supplies.

The diplomat, Ahmad Nurani said Tuesday that Iran currently supplies 18 million cubic meters of gas per day to Turkey.

Iran is the second biggest gas supplier to Turkey after Russia.

Russia and the Ukraine's bitter dispute over gas pricing and overdue payments has resulted in Moscow shutting off supplies to six European nations. The gas supplies affected transit through Ukraine.

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