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Turkey To Pursue Talks With Gaz De France

TURKEY TO PURSUE TALKS WITH GAZ DE FRANCE

Al-arab online, UK
April 11 2007

Turkey has not suspended talks with Gaz de France over the Nabucco
pipeline project which would bring Caspian gas to Europe, Turkish
Energy Minister Hilmi Guler told reporters on Wednesday.

Senior Turkish energy officials had said last week talks with the
French company had been suspended in protest at a French bill on the
mass killings of Armenians during Ottoman rule.

"Nabucco is an extremely important project for us and the process is
continuing normally. Gaz de France has not been suspended from the
project," Guler said.

But he said economic, strategic and political issues, including the
French bill, would be taken into account when selecting the sixth
partner for the project.

The 4.6-billion euro ($6.14 billion) project envisages transporting
natural gas from Turkey to Austria, passing through Bulgaria, Romania
and Hungary and would reduce Europe’s dependency on Russian gas.

The four other countries have already approved a partnership with
Gaz de France in the project.

Austrian oil and gas group OMV heads the consortium planning to build
the pipeline.

Bulgargaz, Transgaz from Romania, MOL of Hungary and Turkey’s Botas
are also partners in the project.

Turkey remains angry at the French national assembly’s approval last
year of a bill making it a crime to deny that the mass killings of
Armenians during World War One amounted to genocide. The bill has
not become law.

Ankara rejects claims by Armenia and other countries that Ottoman
Turks committed a systematic genocide against 1.5 million Armenians
during World War One.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS
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