TURKEY "BOTASH" DOES NOT WANT TO SEE GAS DE FRANCE AS PARTNER
Azeri Press Agency, Azerbaijan
April 5 2007
Turkish refused "Gas de France" as a strategic partner in the gas
mainline project Nabucco.
Ankara refused French company’s involvement in the construction of
Nabucco project, which is to transport gas recourses from Caspian
states and Middle East to Europe, APA’s Turkey bureau reports. Gas
de France expressed its wish to participate in the project. Except
Turkey, other project involved companies OMV (Austria), MOL (Hungary),
Bulgargaz (Bulgaria) and Transgaz (Romania) agreed to France’s
participation.
Turkey said it would not let Gas de France to participate in
the project explaining this with its protest against the French
parliament’s decision to make it crime to deny "Armenian genocide".
The Nabucco project would provide some 25 billion cubic meters of
natural gas every year, transporting it 3,000 kilometers from Turkey
to Austria, via Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary.