TEHRAN (Dispatches) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and his Omani and Indian counterparts Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah and Sushma Swaraj in a meeting in New York conferred on ways to further expand cooperation, specially in the energy sector.
During the meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly conference in New York on Saturday evening, the three top diplomats also discussed regional and international issues.
India considerably increased importing crude oil from Iran in July as compared with the previous month.
Iran shipped 502,000 barrels of crude oil to India and its private companies in July as compared with 83,000 barrels in June.
A review of export figures to India since 2015 also indicates that, the Asian country’s imports from Iran have risen given that daily average export of the product to India for 2015 and 2016 was 189,000 and 451,000 barrels, respectively.
In the first three quarters of 2017, a daily average of 438 thousand barrels were sent to India though the figure is likely to change over the remaining three months in the present year.
The number of Indian customers has climbed from previously three to seven firms, the most credible of which are Reliance Petroleum Limited and Essar Oil.