TRANSCASPIAN GAS PIPELINE NOT BOUND WITH KARABAKH PROBLEM
PanARMENIAN.Net
12.02.2007 18:10 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ "The Armenian Foreign Minister made remarks on
of Armenia’s joining the Transcaspian gas pipeline, the terms
of implementation of which are hard to determine. The idea of
running through the Caspian seabed for transportation of the
Kazakh gas to Azerbaijan is lobbied by the U.S. administration. The
technical-economic basis of the project is laid by the U.S. Oskanian’s
statement proceeds from this fact," director of Caucasus analytical
center Victor Yakubyan told a PanARMENIAN.Net reporter.
In his words, the Transcaspian gas pipeline is an issue of global
politics bound by the interests of the U.S., EU, Russia, Iran, Turkey
and a number of other states. "Oskanian’s statements is political
and not coordinated either with energy ministers or ArmRosgazprom
leaders. Nevertheless, the project is by no means tied with the
Karabakh problem, as some Azeri say. By the time the states interested
in the pipeline through the undivided Caspian seabed succeed in
breaking down the resistance of those not interested, the Karabakh
conflict will have been settled, I hope. Thus far, Armenia can lobby
filling the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzrum gas pipeline with mid-Asian gas but
I doubt Yerevan needs it," the Armenian experts said.