India keen to develop Chabahar port, Narendra Modi tells Iran .

[itachiii]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday told Iran that India is keen to help develop the strategic Iranian port of Chabahar, seen by India as offering an alternative route to landlocked Afghanistan and resource-rich central Asian countries. “India keen on working with Iran on Chabahar port,” Modi told Akbar Torkan, chief adviser to the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani at a meeting on the sidelines of the “Vibrant Gujarat” economic meet in Gandhinagar, according to a Twitter post by Indian foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin. India and Iran had agreed to look at developing the port in southeastern Iran in 2003 during a visit to India by then Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, but the venture has not made much progress. The Chabahar port on the Gulf of Oman is 72km from Pakistan’s Chinese-constructed port of Gwadar, built as part of a plan to open up an energy and trade corridor from the Gulf to western China. It has the capacity to handle 2.5 million tonnes a year, which Iran would like to increase to 12.5 million tonnes. Iran has made the area adjacent to Chabahar town a free-trade zone hoping to spur growth in its poor southeast. Given its often hostile ties with Pakistan, India views the port as an alternative route not only to Afghanistan, but also to the resource-rich, landlocked countries of central Asia. The proposal to develop Chabahar was revived about two years ago, with India committing $100 million for its development last year. A visit to India last year by Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif was also key to providing momentum to the discussions on the subject. Though ports and infrastructure were not targeted under sanctions against Iran for its suspect nuclear programme, the prospects of doing business with an international pariah was one of the factors that led India drag its feet on the project. India has spent $100 million on building a 220km road in western Afghanistan to link up with Chabahar.

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[Dem!god]

india should do more...
we are moving at tortoise pace... need to increase speed of its development...

and then we also need to talk for undersea, pipeline..

 

[ito]

Iran is the only way for India to reach CAR. I have no hopes trade happening between India and CAR through Pakistan, hence investing in Chabahar is very important for India.

 

[SrNair]

Iran is our only option for expanding trades in to CAR region.
It will give some sort of self reliance to Afghanistan also.
We should complete this JV with Iran ASAP.



@SOHEIL @yavar

 

[sree45]

Excellent news.. Chahbahar port is going to change the whole region for good.

 

[SrNair]

Afghan President Ghani to sign security agreement with Iran soon

After nine foreign trips, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s will soon head to Iran on an official visit.
According to the presidential palace here in Kabul, the Afghan president will ink a bilateral strategic pact with his Iranian counterpart Hasan Rouhani in Tehran.
The pact will boost cooperation between Kabul and Tehran in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking. The agreement will also expand trade and cover the Issue of afghan migrants

Afghan President to Visit Iran Soon to Sign Security Pact
TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is due to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to conclude a strategic security agreement.
Nazifollah Salarzi, the Afghan president's spokesman, said that President Ghani has decided to embark on a visit to Iran to sign a strategic security pact with the neighboring country on further mutual cooperation in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking.
Salarzi, however, did not mention the exact date of President Ghani's visit to Iran.
He noted that the strategic pact had been proposed by senior
Iranian officials during former Afghan President Hamid Karzai's tenure and President Ghani is going to sign it now.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Afghan counterpart last had a phone call in October to discuss the latest security developments in the region, and emphasized the need for both Tehran and Kabul to strengthen all-out cooperation.
During the conversation, President Rouhani announced the Iranian nation’s satisfaction over the establishment of national unity government in Afghanistan.
Iran is one of the most important donors to Afghanistan, which has kept its promises to help to the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
Iran has built several roads, power transmission lines, border stations and many other infrastructure projects in Afghanistan to better link the two nations.
Iran has also contributed more than $50mln annually to Afghan anti-narcotics efforts during the last five years.

Farsnews


JV ??

Means Joint Venture .This is a joint venture where both nations are investing for develop that port.

 

[yavar]

Iran is our only option for expanding trades in to CAR region.
It will give some sort of self reliance to Afghanistan also.
.

Afghan President Ghani to sign security agreement with Iran soon

After nine foreign trips, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s will soon head to Iran on an official visit.
According to the presidential palace here in Kabul, the Afghan president will ink a bilateral strategic pact with his Iranian counterpart Hasan Rouhani in Tehran.
The pact will boost cooperation between Kabul and Tehran in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking. The agreement will also expand trade and cover the Issue of afghan migrants

Afghan President to Visit Iran Soon to Sign Security Pact
TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is due to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to conclude a strategic security agreement.
Nazifollah Salarzi, the Afghan president's spokesman, said that President Ghani has decided to embark on a visit to Iran to sign a strategic security pact with the neighboring country on further mutual cooperation in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking.
Salarzi, however, did not mention the exact date of President Ghani's visit to Iran.
He noted that the strategic pact had been proposed by senior
Iranian officials during former Afghan President Hamid Karzai's tenure and President Ghani is going to sign it now.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Afghan counterpart last had a phone call in October to discuss the latest security developments in the region, and emphasized the need for both Tehran and Kabul to strengthen all-out cooperation.
During the conversation, President Rouhani announced the Iranian nation’s satisfaction over the establishment of national unity government in Afghanistan.
Iran is one of the most important donors to Afghanistan, which has kept its promises to help to the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
Iran has built several roads, power transmission lines, border stations and many other infrastructure projects in Afghanistan to better link the two nations.
Iran has also contributed more than $50mln annually to Afghan anti-narcotics efforts during the last five years.

Farsnews

the railroad between Khaf ( Iran ) and Herat ( Afghanistan ) soon will be finished and up and running in next few months this is anther think you need to take to consideration

 

[SrNair]

Afghan President Ghani to sign security agreement with Iran soon

After nine foreign trips, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s will soon head to Iran on an official visit.
According to the presidential palace here in Kabul, the Afghan president will ink a bilateral strategic pact with his Iranian counterpart Hasan Rouhani in Tehran.
The pact will boost cooperation between Kabul and Tehran in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking. The agreement will also expand trade and cover the Issue of afghan migrants

Afghan President to Visit Iran Soon to Sign Security Pact
TEHRAN (FNA)- Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani is due to pay an official visit to Iran in the near future to conclude a strategic security agreement.
Nazifollah Salarzi, the Afghan president's spokesman, said that President Ghani has decided to embark on a visit to Iran to sign a strategic security pact with the neighboring country on further mutual cooperation in the campaign against terrorism and combating drug trafficking.
Salarzi, however, did not mention the exact date of President Ghani's visit to Iran.
He noted that the strategic pact had been proposed by senior
Iranian officials during former Afghan President Hamid Karzai's tenure and President Ghani is going to sign it now.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Afghan counterpart last had a phone call in October to discuss the latest security developments in the region, and emphasized the need for both Tehran and Kabul to strengthen all-out cooperation.
During the conversation, President Rouhani announced the Iranian nation’s satisfaction over the establishment of national unity government in Afghanistan.
Iran is one of the most important donors to Afghanistan, which has kept its promises to help to the reconstruction of the war-ravaged country.
Iran has built several roads, power transmission lines, border stations and many other infrastructure projects in Afghanistan to better link the two nations.
Iran has also contributed more than $50mln annually to Afghan anti-narcotics efforts during the last five years.

Farsnews

the railroad between Khaf ( Iran ) and Herat ( Afghanistan ) soon will be finished and up and running in next few months this is anther think you need to take to consideration

JV ?? JV ?? what that ??

Means Joint Venture .This is a joint venture where both nations are investing for develop that port

 

[yavar]

Means Joint Venture .This is a joint venture where both nations are investing for develop that port

We should complete this JV with Iran ASAP.

is been done as fast as possible

 

[anonymus]

Iran is the only way for India to reach CAR. I have no hopes trade happening between India and CAR through Pakistan, hence investing in Chabahar is very important for India.

I do not think that Central Asia is valuable enough that we need to develop Chabhar for that. But the fact that it would curtail Afghanistan's dependency on Pakistan makes it Justified.

Few billion dollars are nothing for GoI, but the degree to which they would undermine Pakistani interest is priceless.


It would make Gwadar even more useless than it is today, and would provide an alternative to Afghanistan.

 

[ito]

I do not think that Central Asia is valuable enough that we need to develop Chabhar for that. But the fact that it would curtail Afghanistan's dependency on Pakistan makes it Justified.

Few billion dollars are nothing for GoI, but the degree to which it would undermine Pakistani interest is priceless.


It would make Gwadar even more useless than it is today, and would provide an alternative to Afghanistan.

I don't want to explicitly state that...but yes India need to make Gwadar useless.

 

[anonymus]

I don't want to explicitly state that...but yes India need to make Gwadar useless.

We do not need to. It is already useless.Everything Gwadar could do, Karachi and Dubai could do better.

What we need to do is ensure to undermine it to such a level that even transfusion of multi-billion dollars in Gwadar would not be able to resuscitate it.

 

[Judge]

I don't want to explicitly state that...but yes India need to make Gwadar useless.

Whether or not it makes Gwadar useless is not an issue or question at all. That does not affect us.

The sheer fact that direct access of Afghanistan to a port(chabahar) will massively curtail Afghanistan's dependency on Pakistan and Pakistan's influence on Afghanistan.

 

[ResurgentIran]

All we ever hear about this project is talk talk, and more talk. No substance.
This so called project will not be finished in the next 100 years.

 

[Judge]

All we ever hear about this project is talk talk, and more talk. No substance.
This so called project will not be finished in the next 100 years.

Port has started functioning with the first shipments to India last year.