AZERBAIAJNI PREMIER: ‘ARMENIA CAN NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE NABUCCO PROJECT’

ArmInfo
2008-12-05 12:39:00

ArmInfo. Azerbaijani Prime Minister’s visit to Georgia got underway
Thursday. Premier Artur Rasizade participates in the session of
Georgia- Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Economic Commission.

Georgian media reported that the commission discussed bilateral
cooperation in the sphere of energy, transport and trade. Rasizade
and his Gerogian counterpart Grigol Mgaloblishvili discussed joint
projects, including Baku-Tbilisi-Kars project. A. Rasizade expressed
hope for completion of the project by 2010. He said Georgia, Azerbaijan
and Turkey will set up a group to control the implementation of
the project.

"Armenia can not join the Nabucco project until it occupies the
Azerbaijani lands", Azerbaijani Prime Minister Artur Rasizade told a
press conference in Tbilisi. "We support any new project and it can
involve any countries, yet until Armenia occupies the Azerbaijani
lands, it can not join any of such projects", Rasizade said.