ARMENIA TO REMAIN OUTSIDE NABUCCO, EC COMMISSIONER FOR ENERGY STATES

Information-Analytic Agency NEWS.am
Sept 15 2009
Armenia

20:27 / 09/15/2009No negotiations over Armenia’s participation in
the Nabucco project are under way, Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for
Energy, European Commission, stated at the Gas Infrastructure World
Caspian-2009 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Armenia is not in the list of participating countries, Azeri mass
media report, referring to the European official.

Early this September, the Turkey-based Star newspaper reported the
European Union (EU), which rendered great assistance to Armenia and
Turkey in reaching an agreement, wanted the planned Nabucco natural
gas pipeline to run through Armenia, not Georgia, as a transit
country. The normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations might be
accompanied by changes in the regional energy balance. Armenia was
announced a prospective participant in the Nabucco project.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress