Breaking a two-year chill in talks with his amalgamation Iran-Pakistan-India gas cylinder, India has invited Iran to resume negotiations on the long discussed project, but Tehran has yet to take action.
India has planned an assembly between India-Iran joint working group between 23 to 28 May in New Delhi, but Tehran has not established the dates, sources familiar with development said.
India has boycotted the talks since the project in 2008 for his concern for the safe delivery of gas were unnoticed. It wants Iran to be responsible for the safe passage of gas through Pakistan and would pay for fuel when it is delivered to the Pakistan-India border.
External Affairs Minister SM Krishna is planned to visit Iran for G-15 summit on the 17th Can and will likely argue the project with his Iranian colleague on Sunday.
The economic collaboration between members of the G-15, a group of 17 mounting countries from Asia, Africa and Latin America, and a review of international developments will be included in the high-profile summit.
Sources said India had last month planned dates for the JWG and it was unlikely that the meeting can now be made between the 23 May and 28 for the reason that of lack of time.
The pipeline has been on the illustration board since the mid-1990s, when Iran and India inked first round agreements to transport gas through Pakistan. It was called "Peace Pipeline" because of the hope it would lead to a rapprochement between neighbors India and Pakistan.
India says it fears for the safety of the pipeline in Pakistan's Balochistan region, the home of a militant Islamist pro-independence movement, and Iran to take accountability for the safe passage of gas through Pakistan.
While security concern and frequent changes in gas prices held New Delhi away from the project, signed the Iran and Pakistan in March the Inter-Governmental Framework Declaration in support of the pipeline. Gas sales concord between the National Iranian Gas Export Co. (NIGEC) and the Pakistan Inter-State Gas Co. has also entered into.
Sources said Tehran insist on the transfer of ownership of gas to India on the Iran-Pakistan border, while New Delhi will be Pakistan-India border as Iran explicit accountability for the safe delivery of gas.
While the 1100-km pipeline from South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf to the Iran-Pakistan border would be laid by an Iranian company, New Delhi wants to take the game at 1,035 kilometers long cylinder segment in Pakistan.
India believes that partaking in the implementation of the pipeline in Pakistan will make the project more comfortable banking, reduce financing costs, ensure timely accomplishment and to ensure transparent and efficient supervision of operations, they said, adding that Islamabad has so far not accepted the application.
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