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SOCAR President receives representative of US Department of State

26 February 2008 [11:19] - TODAY.AZ
SOCAR president Rovnag Abdullayev received Steven Mann, coordinator of US Department of State on Eurasian energy issues, on Monday.

Day.Az reports with reference to the press service for SOCAR that Mann expressed the intention to visit Turkey and Turkmenistan in the framework of the visit to the region and then return to Azerbaijan to continue discussions on cooperation in energy sector.

He noted that the United States support energy projects, implemented in Azerbaijan.

Abdullayev noted that the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was constructed under US support and said Azerbaijan has no problems left with oil transportation following the commissioning of this pipeline. He also provided information about the process of preliminary works on the second phase of the Shah Deniz project.

According to Abdullayev, Azerbaijan is considering ways of natural gas transportation by various routes, including Nabucco, Turkey-Greece-Italy and others.

/Day.Az/
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