India, Pakistan and Iran will be meeting in Tehran in July for long-awaited talks on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project, Iran's English-language satellite channel Press TV reported Tuesday, citing a senior Indian oil official.
"Most of the bilateral issues have been resolved... And now a trilateral meeting of oil ministers of the three countries is mostly likely to take place in Tehran next month," India's Petroleum Secretary M.S. Srinivasan said, according to Press TV.
Srinivasan added that he hoped Pakistan would support India's stance that the gas be delivered at the India-Pakistan frontier rather than the Iran-Pakistan border, Press TV reported.
"In our negotiations with Pakistan on April 24, Pakistani officials said they have no problem with our stand and they will also attend the trilateral meeting and they will help us," he said, according to Press TV.
The 2,775-kilometer gas pipeline will have the capacity to transfer 60 million cubic meters of annually from Iran to India via Pakistan, Press TV said.