TURKISH PRIME MINISTER IN MOSCOW

AZG DAILY
12-01-2010

Karabakh conflict

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will pay a two-day working
visit to Moscow on Tuesday to discuss economic cooperation, primarily
joint energy projects, the Turkish government said on Monday.

The sides are expected to "exchange views on regional issues and
economic problems on the agenda of the two states, above all, energy,"
the government said in a press release.

According to Turkish media reports, the talks will focus on Russian
gas supplies to Turkey, and a number of oil and gas pipeline projects,
including the South Stream project to pump Russian and Central Asian
gas to Europe along the bed of the Black Sea, the second leg of the
Blue Stream natural gas pipeline, linking the two countries, and the
Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline to bring Caspian oil to the Mediterranean via
Turkey, RIA Novosti reports.

According to Trend News, the meeting between Russian and Turkish
Prime Ministers Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Moscow
on January 12 will be the first one in a range of meetings that can
both directly and indirectly affect advances in the Nagorno-Karabakh
conflict. The agenda of the visit contains both the issues of
bilateral Turkish-Russian economic relations, and political issues
of regional character. One of the main points will be settlement of
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict.