Memoirs of Akbar Hashemi – September 12, 1994

Until nearly ten in the morning, I was reading about the history of the Ottomans at home, waiting for the second meeting with the Pakistani delegation. The meeting was delayed for an hour due to the unfinished discussion of the commissions.

At ten o'clock, we reached Saadabad residence and the second round of negotiations started immediately. The commissions reported on the agreement on gas, oil and trade, and Mr. Leghari and I concluded the meeting and went to the airport. It turned out that it takes some time to prepare the documents for signing. He went to the residence.

Dr. Velayati and Aghazadeh and I walked for a while in the lawns of Saadabad and talked about oil and gas, traveling to India, the Kashmir issue, and America's provocations to create a dispute between Iran and Qatar, regarding the share of the joint gas field.

It turned out that it takes another hour to prepare the documents; It was agreed that they would leave at four o'clock in the afternoon. I said they prepared their lunch and I went to my office.

The presidents of the universities and the minister and deputy ministers of the Ministry of Culture and Higher Education came. They said the shortages and needs of foreign exchange and Riyal. I consoled them and promised to compensate for the deficiencies and restore the rights and strengthen the university, and they left satisfied. They had lunch in my office.

Efat had also gone to Saadabad to see off the ladies accompanying the President of Pakistan, and due to the delay, he came to my office and said that they had brought a large number of carpets and jewelry to the residence for the guests to buy, and that they had made significant purchases.

They came to the office at four o'clock and the agreements were signed. We went to the airport together. On the way, they talked about the danger of destruction of Pakistan's nuclear energy facilities by Israel or India at the instigation of America; In this regard, I told him the words of Mr. [Youssef bin] Alavi, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Oman, who had raised this risk as information in the negotiation with Dr. Velayati. thanked He was saddened by Mr. Nawaz Sharif's statements about having an atomic bomb, which caused a lot of pressure on Pakistan, and also due to the fact that, according to the Minister of Energy of the United States, a large group of American capitalists will soon go to Pakistan to participate in the 7,000 megawatt electricity production plan that is in Pakistan's plan, and he hoped that their relations with the United States would improve. Although it was claimed, now the relations are very dark.

After the interview and the official send-off and departure of the guests, we returned to the office. By nine o'clock at night, I did the work and came home. No one was at home. I was ready. I wrote the memories and slept.