ISRAEL IS INTERESTED IN BAKU-TBILISI-CEYHAN PIPELINE

AZG Armenian Daily
03/11/2006

Israel is displaying certain interest in Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey
pipeline. The country wants to join the pipeline as a user and as a
further transfer point for the energy carriers, Benyamin Ben-Eliezer,
Minister of Israel’s National Infrastructures, stated in the course
of the conference in energetics in Haifa. Ben-Eliezer added that the
oil and gas pipelines may develop in the following way: they begin in
Azerbaijan, pass through Georgia and Turkey, and the Mediterranean sea
and end in Israel. Anyway, the minister stated that Israel is ready
to both make large-scale purchase of energy carriers and offers its
territory for spreading the Caspian oil in the Asian markets.

Mikhail Saakashvili, President of Georgia, who participated in the
conference, once again touched upon the Russian-Georgian relations
and emphasized that Russia conducts anti-Georgian policy.