The United States boosts annihilation of the monopoly for the supply of natural gas to Europe and expects Azerbaijan to play a key role in it, the US Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasia Daniel Fried said in Washington.
" Azerbaijan has a strategic opportunity as an alternative supplier of natural gas to Europe," Fried said at an international workshop on cooperation between the United States, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
"The gas reserves in Azerbaijan may be enough to commence and probably complete the construction of alternative gas pipelines to link the South and Central Europe with the Caspian Sea via Turkey, thus providing a viable alternative for a monopolistic gas transportation system and closed investment climate to several of our European allies," Fried said.
Opening up energy developments and putting an end to the closed monopolistic transportation system will reduce corruption. Azerbaijan should not make the same mistakes of other countries rich in oil and gas, RIA Novosti quoted Fried.