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To: Webster Groves who wrote (99998)	4/29/2008 12:53:38 AM
From: rz	Respond to of 206121

>> Haven't seen this mentioned in the US press << Here it is (from WSJ): Ahmadinejad's Visit Resolves Issues On a Pakistan-Iran Pipeline Project Associated Press April 28, 2008 1:35 p.m. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's brief visit in Pakistan resolved some important issues related to plans for a multibillion-dollar gas pipeline project, one opposed by the United States. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeted and hugged Pakistani officials after getting off the plane in Islamabad, the Pakistani capital. Rifle-toting soldiers flanked a red carpet laid out on the tarmac for the Iranian leader, state television showed, before he went on to meet Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani. Messrs. Musharraf and Ahmadinejad were satisfied that "all issues that had delayed a final agreement" on the natural gas pipeline project were resolved, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said, according to the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan. The report did not specify the issues resolved. The two Muslim countries foreign ministers will set a date for signing the pipeline accord, Mr. Qureshi said. India also has been involved in the project, which would run a pipeline 1,625 miles from Iran to India through Pakistan and initially carry 2,120 million cubic feet of gas a day. The project has been hit by delays since Iran proposed it in the 1990s, mainly because of Indian concerns about the safety of sections of the $7.5 billion pipeline in Pakistan, India's rival for more than half a century. The Indian and Pakistani oil ministers said Friday after talks in Islamabad that they were close to finalizing their part of the pipeline accord. The U.S. opposes the project because it fears it will weaken efforts to isolate Iran over its disputed nuclear program, which Tehran insists is for power generation. Nuclear-armed Pakistan insists Iran has a right to peaceful nuclear technology and has called for the Iranian nuclear standoff to be resolved peacefully and without sanctions. Iran and Pakistan have cordial relations but have not always agreed on the approach to Afghanistan. Pakistan was once one of the key backers of the Afghan Taliban, which Iran opposed. Mr. Ahmadinejad is to meet with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani during the hours-long stopover on his way to Sri Lanka. Afghanistan, which neighbors both Iran and Pakistan and is struggling with a Taliban-led insurgency, also is expected to be discussed. On Sunday, U.S.-backed Afghan President Hamid Karzai escaped a militant attack on a military parade that killed three people. Copyright © 2008 Associated Press