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Iran to develop electric power in Sudan

December 28, 2008 (TEHERAN) –Iran has pledged to cooperate in the development of electric power in Sudan, an Iranian minister announced today after a meeting with the visiting Sudanese minister of Energy and mining in Teheran.

Iranian Minister of Energy, Parviz Fattah, Sunday said that he discussed with his Sudanese counterpart, Zubair Ahmed Al-Hassan, the development of electricity sector in Sudan and expressed the readiness of his country to participate in these projects.

He further mentioned that Iranian firms are already present in Sudan and building some power hydroelectric plants in the country.

The Sudanese minister said Sudan has great potential for the development of hydroelectric stations. He further said that Sudan wants to make use of ran’s expertise in this field.

Al-Hassan added that Sudan was also seeking cooperation from India, Malaysia, and China in the field of electricity.

Sudan has begun the modernisation and construction of several dams in the northern, center and southern Sudan to implement huge agriculture projects in the country mostly financed by Arab funds.

Since 2003, Sudan and Iran signed a number of cooperation agreements in the fields of agriculture, trade, industry economic, cultural and technical cooperation. During a visit of the president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Khartoum in February 2007, the two countries also agreed to enhance environmental cooperation as well as industrial and mine cooperation.

(ST)

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  • DAVID N.
    DAVID N.

    Iran to develop electric power in Sudan
    I urge Khartoum my brother not to coporate with IRAN, they are caucasian white whom lives in Asian minor for more than centuries, the mother of Hitler, and Kosobo. They don’t needed to be in AFRICA. They are rats! You can’t trust them. They are enemy of Baghdadi JEWS! They are not Sephardi, but Caucasian Poisoneus Sneak! Get cut IRAN from Africa, and EGYPY never, never tells you to coporate with this mother of Hitler to be with SUDAN! Becareful! Send them to WEST! The Antichrist!!!

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