EU voices continuous support to energy-rich Azerbaijan
By Gulgiz Dadashova
Azerbaijan is today one of the EU's major and most reliable energy partners and the Southern Gas Corridor is at the center of our strategic energy partnership.
Malena Mard, Head of the EU Baku mission made the remark ahead of first meeting of the Advisory Council of the Southern Gas Corridor project scheduled for February 12.
The meeting is scheduled for February 12 and is expected to bring together Italian Deputy State Secretary for Economic Development Claudio de Vincenti, energy ministers of Greece, Georgia and Bulgaria, Panagiotis Lafazanis, Kakha Kaladze and Temenujka Petkova, as well as the Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic.
“Our objective is that the entire infrastructure along the corridor would be operational in time by 2019-2020,” she told Trend.
Mard further noted that in line with the European Energy Security Strategy, the Southern Gas Corridor remains a key project for the common objective of diversification of sources and suppliers.
“The Advisory Council meeting in Baku will be a very important event on high political level to promote the Southern Gas Corridor,” she said.
Southern Gas Corridor is one of the priority energy projects for EU. This project is aimed at diversification of routes and sources of energy supply and thereby increase EU’s energy security. The Southern Gas Corridor envisages the delivery of gas from Azerbaijan’s Shah Deniz gas condensate field to Europe.
Earlier, Maja Kocijancic, Spokeswomen to European Commission/Commissioner Hahn voiced EU’s commitment to the success of the Southern Gas Corridor
“The EU has a strategic energy relationship with Azerbaijan which it values as an element in its wider network of energy relationships in the Black Sea region,” she wrote in an e-mail to AzerNews.
Kocijancic noted that the EU is interested in deepening and widening its relations with Azerbaijan beyond the excellent strategic cooperation in energy.
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