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MULTIMEDIA
May 26, 2012
 
 
 
 
 
 

Expert: Turkey should stick to claim on Nabucco gas

11 July 2009 / TODAY'S ZAMAN, İSTANBUL
Ankara should not give up on its claim to be able to buy 15 percent of the gas to be transported via the Nabucco pipeline because otherwise it will end up a mere transit country in the 7.9 billion euro ($11.04 billion) project.

“The European Union wants to turn Turkey into a passive transit country regarding Nabucco,” Hasan Kanbolat, who heads the Ankara-based think tank ORSAM, said in a statement insisting that Turkey has a rightful demand. He argued that EU countries, big consumers of energy, want to create international norms that will allow them to cut transit costs in the transport of energy from suppliers.

Turkey has insisted that it should be able to buy 15 percent of the Nabucco gas at cheaper prices for domestic use or re-export, a demand European partners of the project have rejected. A transit deal to be signed by Turkey, Romania, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria in Ankara on July 13 is not expected to include any commitment to the Turkish demand but will include other guarantees on the security of the gas supply.

 
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