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US encourages Greece to stick to non-Russia pipeline project
Talks between Washington and Athens on gas
08 May, 19:09
(ANSA/AP) - ATHENS - The United States is encouraging Greece
to move forward with a pipeline bringing natural gas from
Azerbaijan to Europe via Greece, rather than setting its hopes
on a different project that would pipe Russian gas through
Turkey.
The U.S. State Department's special envoy on energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, said Friday he had discussed energy resources with a number of Greek officials during a visit to Athens and that the two sides "agreed on more than we disagreed." Greece's new left-wing government has expressed interest in a Moscow-backed pipeline project dubbed Turkish Stream that would bring natural gas across the Black Sea to Turkey and from there to Europe, potentially through Greece. The U.S. has been encouraging the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, that will take Azeri gas from the Caspian Sea to Italy.
(ANSA/AP).
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The U.S. State Department's special envoy on energy affairs, Amos Hochstein, said Friday he had discussed energy resources with a number of Greek officials during a visit to Athens and that the two sides "agreed on more than we disagreed." Greece's new left-wing government has expressed interest in a Moscow-backed pipeline project dubbed Turkish Stream that would bring natural gas across the Black Sea to Turkey and from there to Europe, potentially through Greece. The U.S. has been encouraging the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline, that will take Azeri gas from the Caspian Sea to Italy.
(ANSA/AP).
