ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday categorically said it would not support sanctions on Iran adding the issue be resolved through diplomatic ways.
Addressing the weekly press briefing here at the foreign office, foreign secretary, Riaz Mohammad Khan, said that Pakistan was minutely reviewing the impacts of the international sanctions on Iran over Pak-Iran diplomatic, political and mutual ties and the situation emerges in the region in the wake of the sanctions.
The foreign secretary said that Iran should be given the right to obtain civilian technology for peaceful purposes under the safeguard of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). "Pakistan wants peaceful solution to Iran issue," he added.
He said that consultants would be appointed over the pricing mechanism of Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline. He said that there would be no pressure on Pakistan pertaining to gas pipeline. " The project will continue to meet the legal energy requirements of the country," he added.
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