Oct 12 Others

السفارة الاميركية في بغداد.. العراق مسؤول عن أجوائه بالكامل للمرة الأولى منذ العام 2003
U.S. embassy in Baghdad .. Iraq was responsible for the entire airspace for the first time since 2003
http://www.sana.sy/ara/3/2011/10/12/375180.htm
October 12, .2011
BAGHDAD - SANA

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad today that Iraq is now responsible for the airspace in full for the first time since 2003.

The embassy said in a statement carried by Agence France-Presse that in the first of October, the current U.S. Air Force transferred control of the airspace of Baghdad/Balad to the Iraqi Civil Aviation Authority.

The statement pointed out that the movement of air transport for all aircraft within this area, which is the busiest and most complex in Iraq are now under way by the Iraqi air traffic controllers, adding that this step take over Iraq will resume full control of the country's airspace for the first time since 2003.

Delivered to Iraq and partial control over the airspace above 24 thousand feet / recipients in more than seven miles, in accordance with the security agreement signed between Baghdad and Washington on December 31, 2008.

The Iraqi airspace is subject to absolute control by the American-led coalition forces since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

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'Turkey eyes more natural gas from Iran'
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/204126.html
Wed Oct 12, 2011 10:3AM

Iranian Deputy Oil Minister Javad Oji says Turkey has requested Iran to increase its natural gas exports to its northwestern neighbor amid a Russia-Turkey row over the price of gas.

Oji also said on Wednesday that Iran's gas exports to Turkey stood at 24 million cubic meters per day on average this year and expressed Tehran's readiness to provide Ankara with further natural gas, Mehr news agency reported.

He further noted that the two countries have held negotiations in the past over an increase in the gas exports to Turkey.

The Oil Ministry official said that Iran has a capacity to export an average of 36-40 million cubic meters of natural gas to Turkey.

Turkey currently has natural gas purchase deals with countries such as Russia, Iran and Azerbaijan, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) deals with Nigeria and Algeria.

The country has refused to extend a gas supply contract with Moscow after failing to secure a 20 percent discount from Russia's gas giant Gazprom.

"Turkey has annulled a gas contract with Russia because we've failed to agree on discount for fuel delivery," said Turkey's Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz.

In 2009, Iran exported an average of 21 million cubic meters of natural gas to Turkey per day.

Iran has the world's second-largest natural gas reserves after Russia and is Turkey's second-biggest supplier after Moscow.