Kocharyan: Gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia didn`t not imply any transit opportunity from the start

ArmInfo.  The gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia did not initially imply any transit possibility. This was stated by the second President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan in an  interview with a number of Armenian media outlets.

To the remark that, according to WikiLeaks revelations, which claimed that Serzh Sargsyan's son-in-law assured the US Ambassador at a meeting that the Iran-Armenia gas pipeline would not be used as a transit pipeline,  Kocharyan said that he was now aware of that negotiations.

"I am now aware of such negotiations, this is the first time I am  hearing what you said. The president's son- in-law had no connections to the Iranian gas pipeline. That gas pipeline did not imply any transit opportunity from the start," he noted. According to the politician, gas pipelines are not built just like that, you need to have contractual agreements what amount of gas and what amount of oil they will buy. "We built that gas pipeline because we had signed a "gas for electricity" agreement with the Iranian side in a ratio of 1 to 3. That was the basis that the gas pipeline is being built, that it would not be empty, that it would be used. There was no other interest from the Georgian side or any other side. Sometimes they claim that there was an agreement to build a gas pipeline of a larger radius, which is an absolute lie, as we did not have other volumes stipulated by the contract," Kocharyan concluded.