AZERI LEADER SLAMS TURKEY AS GAS ROUTE TO EUROPE
Reuters
10.16.09, 01:25 PM EDT
MOSCOW, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s president Ilham Aliyev said
late on Friday that his country is considering other gas routes to
Europe as Turkey’s terms have become ‘unacceptable’, Interfax news
agency quoted him as saying.
The statement follows sharp criticism from Aliyev over the
rapprochement between long-term ally Turkey and its neighbour Armenia,
with whom it has a two-decade land dispute.
‘We’ve run out of options and the current offers cannot be accepted,’
he told a government meeting in Baku.
(Reporting by Amie Ferris-Rotman, editing by Dmitry Zhdannikov)
Keywords: AZERBAIJAN/TURKEY GAS