India, Pakistan and Iran are likely to hold trilateral talks on the gas pipeline project in January. Iranian Oil Minister's special representative for the project Hojjatollah Ghanimifard said that the talks might resume in January since India declared it was ready to resume trilateral talks on the venture.
He also referred to the gas talks held between Iran and Pakistan in Tehran, and said representatives of Gazprom, Russia's state-controlled gas producer, had taken part in the talks, ANI news agency reports. Dialogues mainly focused on the pipeline operation agreement and main points of gas transit to India, he said.