Iran has asked India and Pakistan for an early trilateral meeting to finalise the long-delayed Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project but New Delhi is seeking to delay talks until its civil nuclear agreement with the United States wins approval of the US Congress next month.
Iran has separately written to its potential gas buyers, India and Pakistan, seeking dates possibly in August, for a meeting of energy ministers from the three countries in Tehran to sort out handful of remaining outstanding issue impeding implementation of the $7.4-billion project, officials said.
