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EU Commissioner for Energy to visit Azerbaijan

06 April 2010 [17:40] - TODAY.AZ
EU Commissioner for Energy Günther Oettinger will arrive in Azerbaijan next week, said the head of EU Delegation to Azerbaijan Roland Kobia.
Ambassador said that the visit showed the significance of Azerbaijan for EU as an energy supplier.

Oettinger will leave for Baku from Ashgabat on April 14. He will meet with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, Foreign Minister, Minister of Industry and Energy and SOCAR president.

South Corridor and Nabucco projects will be discussed at the meetings. The visit will end on April 16.

Before Oettinger - EU Commissioner for Enlargement and European neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule will visit Azerbaijan on April 7.

He will visit Foreign Ministry, Ministry of Economic Development and meet with representatives of political parties and civil society. Kobia said that Fule would visit IDPs homes too. To him, it is a humanistic message on EU’s care and support for IDPs.


/APA/
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