Baku, Azerbaijan, Sept.2
Aygun Badalova - Trend:
Turkish Stream gas pipeline project will be eventually implemented, Russian President Vladimir Putin believes.
In an interview with Bloomberg Putin said that Russia and Turkey have many projects in energy sphere, and Turkish Stream is one of them.
“I think, we will eventually implement it. At least, its first part, related to expanding of transport capabilities and increasing supplies to the Turkish domestic market, but also with the possibility to transport to European partners, if they wish to, and if the European Commission will support it,” Putin said in the interview, published on the Kremlin website.
Turkish Stream project, which involves the construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey through the Black Sea, was frozen after the relations between Moscow and Ankara deteriorated in November 2015.
During a meeting on Aug. 9, Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to resume the implementation of the Turkish Stream project.