Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council and Russia’s deputy prime minister for transport have underscored the need to accelerate the implementation of the strategic North–South Corridor during high-level talks in Tehran.
Ali Larijani met and held talks with Vitaly Savelyev at the Secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Tuesday.
The meeting followed agreements reached at the highest level between the presidents of the two countries and aimed at removing existing obstacles and moving the project into its operational phase.
During the talks, both sides reviewed the North–South Corridor as a key geopolitical component shaping regional connectivity.
North-South Transport Corridor (INSTC) is a network of ship, rail and road routes spanning over seven thousand kilometers connecting northern Europe with Southern Asia.
Larijani said Iran has made a firm decision to operationalize the corridor, pledging that all executive and institutional hurdles would be removed in the near term....more below
Ghana is interested in purchasing a floating nuclear power plant from Russia, Ghanaian Ambassador to Russian Koma Steem Jehu-Appiah told Sputnik.
"I know that our minister of energy was here last year and signed a corresponding agreement. I think this is innovative, and in a conversation with the minister of energy, he said that the country is interested.
So, Ghana could purchase such a nuclear power plant," the diplomat said when asked about the possibility of Ghana purchasing a floating nuclear power plant.
Russia and Ghana began cooperation in the field of nuclear energy after signing an intergovernmental agreement in 2015.
The agreement outlined plans for joint work in the areas of training specialists, building nuclear power plants and related infrastructure, and providing maintenance services. In October 2023, representatives of Rosatom met with the Ghanaian Ministry of Energy in Cape Town. At the meeting, Russia proposed using floating nuclear power plants to supply power to ...
