BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS

DATE:

29/11/2006

Azerbaijan, Ukraine and Belarus workgroup on energy transportation

Presidents of Azerbaijan and Ukraine Ilham Aliyev and Victor Yushchenko held a bilateral meeting at CIS summit in Minsk, APA reports.

They discussed the cooperation on energy deliveries, namely Caspian oil transportation to Europe through Odessa-Brodi-Plotsk pipeline. Ilham Aliyev and Victor Yushchenko also discussed the cooperation within GUAM. Later on president of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko joined the discussion. The presidents decided to form a workgroup consisting of ministers of economy. Victor Yushchenko said that the question concerning the establishment of consortium unifying CIS energy-export, energy-transit and energy-import countries should be examined carefully. He also noted that the summit did not justify his hopes. /APA/

Source:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=16911

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