Officials of India and Pakistan will hold bilateral talks on June 27 to discuss transportation tariff and transit fee payable by New Delhi to Islamabad for allowing passage of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline to India.
Union Petroleum Minister Murli Deora told a press meet in Kochi on Sunday that besides this meeting, trilateral talks between India, Iran and Pakistan would be held on June 29, PTI said.
Earlier, in Noida, near New Delhi on Wednesday, Deora told reporters that India expects to finalise an agreement on the tri-nation pipeline by the middle of next month, which will bring natural gas from Iran via Pakistan.
"We have to strike the deal by mid-July," the Indian Petroleum Minister had added.
To a question he had remarked a ministerial-level meeting is expected later in July, when the three countries could ink a framework agreement on the over 7 billion dollar pipeline. The 2,300 km long pipeline will initially carry around 60 million cubic meters of gas per day, split equally between India and Pakistan.