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Intersputnik
Holding Talks With Iraq
Intersputnik and
Alfa-Eco have been negotiating with Iraq to provide access to space
communications and possibly launch an Iraqi satellite in the future.
Alfa-Eco is associated with Alfa Bank, one of  Russia's
largest commercial banks. Intersputnik and Iraqi officials have been
discussing the possibility of building a ground station in Iraq that
would be used for telephone communications and television broadcast
via an Intersputnik satellite. Building a new station would take
several months once the contract is signed. The cost could vary from
tens to hundreds thousands dollars, depending on the final shape of
the project. Intersputnik built such a station in the 1980s, but it
was destroyed in the Gulf War that followed Iraq's 1990 invasion of
Kuwait.
Intersputnik
says that its contacts with Iraq fully comply with international
sanctions imposed on Iraq.
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