Reuters: Turkmenistan Agreed to Build a Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | November 19, 2010 17:28
Turkmenistan has achieved support from partners in the Caspian gas pipeline construction issue of the East-West “. Writes Reuters, so the country could become a major gas exporter to Europe, which contributes to the EU-supported project Nabucco. As stated by Deputy Prime Minister of Turkmenistan Baymurad Hodzhamuhamedov, “the country can deliver to Europe to 40 billion cubic meters of gas, without naming, however, possible start date of supply. The Vice Premier said that the construction of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline under the Caspian Sea comply with the policy of Turkmenistan to diversify the areas of marketing natural gas. The project will transport Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan and from there into the direction of Europe. In this case, the newspaper Kommersant reported today that the gas pipeline Nabucco, which is the aim of building a gas supply of Europe’s media resource base from the Caspian region, will not be realized in the near future due to lack of agreement fixed the legal status of the Caspian Sea. “Yesterday, at the summit of Caspian littoral states in Baku, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and his counterpart from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran have not been able to divide the Caspian Sea” – the newspaper writes. The Presidents instructed the three months to prepare proposals for the delimitation of boundaries, so that next year’s summit in Russia to sign an agreement to this effect
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