Official affirms stance on Nabucco
Azerbaijan remains committed to its position on
participating in the Nabucco pipeline project, which seeks to pump
gas from the resource-rich Caspian and Central Asia regions to
European markets, a senior official has said.
Novruz Mammadov, the head of the Presidential Administration international relations department, said in an interview with the ruling New Azerbaijan Party`s website that the reports saying the South Caucasus republic will refuse to take part in the Nabucco project after having signed an agreement on the supplies of its gas to Russia had no merit.
Russian gas giant Gazprom and Azerbaijani state energy firm SOCAR signed an agreement early last week on selling Azeri gas to Russia during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev`s visit to Baku. According to Alexei Miller, Gazprom`s Chief Executive, the company will buy 500 million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan beginning in 2010.
Mammadov stressed that, just like Baku`s foreign policy is multi-faceted and balanced, its energy policy reflects various directions.
"In this sense, I have to note that, along with Russia, we continue cooperating with other states in this field and will keep on doing so in the future. The Nabucco project is one of these [initiatives]. In other words, none of these directions hampers another."
Russia`s Kommersant newspaper reported earlier that Russia intends to buy huge volumes of gas from Azerbaijan and is ready to pay $350 per 1,000 cubic meters, which would deal a powerful blow to the Nabucco project.
The NABUCCO project seeks to deliver 30 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe through a 3,300-kilometer pipeline from Turkey through Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary to Austria.
Novruz Mammadov, the head of the Presidential Administration international relations department, said in an interview with the ruling New Azerbaijan Party`s website that the reports saying the South Caucasus republic will refuse to take part in the Nabucco project after having signed an agreement on the supplies of its gas to Russia had no merit.
Russian gas giant Gazprom and Azerbaijani state energy firm SOCAR signed an agreement early last week on selling Azeri gas to Russia during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev`s visit to Baku. According to Alexei Miller, Gazprom`s Chief Executive, the company will buy 500 million cubic meters of gas from Azerbaijan beginning in 2010.
Mammadov stressed that, just like Baku`s foreign policy is multi-faceted and balanced, its energy policy reflects various directions.
"In this sense, I have to note that, along with Russia, we continue cooperating with other states in this field and will keep on doing so in the future. The Nabucco project is one of these [initiatives]. In other words, none of these directions hampers another."
Russia`s Kommersant newspaper reported earlier that Russia intends to buy huge volumes of gas from Azerbaijan and is ready to pay $350 per 1,000 cubic meters, which would deal a powerful blow to the Nabucco project.
The NABUCCO project seeks to deliver 30 billion cubic meters of gas to Europe through a 3,300-kilometer pipeline from Turkey through Romania, Bulgaria and Hungary to Austria.
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