Azerbaijan 'key' country in all energy projects in region

Azerbaijan is a key country in all energy projects carried out and to be realized in the region, professor of the US University of Montana, Thomas Goltz told Turkish minister of energy and natural recourses Taner Yildiz.

At the meeting, that took place in Ankara, Goltz noted Turkey was also an important corridor in transportation of the Caspian Sea`s energy recourses. Touching upon Turkey's energy strategy, Goltz said the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline was the first step for the recognition of official Ankara as an energy corridor in the world. He added, that at present, Turkey continues efforts towards construction of another energy project - the Nabucco gas pipeline.


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