NABUCCO TO GET A BOOST FROM EU

Baku, 05 December,(AzerTAj)“European Union will push for a Nabucco pipe-line project”, senior representative of the European Union for Middle Asia Mr. Pierre Morel told, AzerTAc reports quoting the AP agency as saying.

The future of the Nabucco natural-gas pipeline project have appeared to be in
serious jeopardy since war broke out between Russia and Georgia and there is a need
to boost this project, according to Pierre Morel.
"The EU believes that we need to strengthen efforts on the construction of Nabucco.
Concrete steps in that direction will be made in the coming months, in early 2009",
Mr. Morel told reporters.
According to EU representative, leaders of Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Turkey
meeting on November 28 and 29, raised European hopes for construction of an undersea
pipeline across the Caspian that could potentially link Central Asia's vast gas
reserves to Western markets.
(NH FA)
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