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EC: Working Group on Ashgabat Declaration to meet soon

Economy Materials 8 December 2016 23:55 (UTC +04:00)
The date of the next meeting of the Working Group on the implementation of the Ashgabat Declaration has not been fixed yet, a source in the European Commission told Trend Dec.8
EC: Working Group on Ashgabat Declaration to meet soon

Baku, Azerbaijan, Dec.8

By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:

The date of the next meeting of the Working Group on the implementation of the Ashgabat Declaration has not been fixed yet, a source in the European Commission told Trend Dec.8.

“The Commission is in contact at bilateral level with all the Working Group participants (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey and Turkmenistan) to identify the possible venue and the most plausible timing for the next meeting to be held in the near future,” said the source.

Ashgabat Declaration is meant for development of energy cooperation between Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and the EU.

The document was signed in May 2015 by Director of the Turkmen State Agency for Management and Use of Hydrocarbon Resources Yagshygeldi Kakayev, Minister of Energy of Azerbaijan Natig Aliyev, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources of Turkey Taner Yildiz and the European Commission Vice-President for the Energy Union Maros Sefcovic.

The EU, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are regularly discussing an opportunity of supplying the Turkmen gas to Europe. In particular, the issue rests in implementing a project for laying the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline to the coast of Azerbaijan to deliver the Turkmen gas from there to Turkey, Bulgaria and other European countries.

The first high-level meeting of the Working Group on the Trans-Caspian pipeline project was held in Brussels on July 14. Georgia also attended the meeting.

The Working Group which was established at the level of deputy ministers in charge of energy sphere of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey and the EU, considers organizational, legal, commercial, technical and other issues, related to natural gas supply from Turkmenistan to Europe.

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