Georgian Speaker to Press for Turkmen Gas
Georgian Speaker to Press for Turkmen Gas
Nino Burjanadze, the speaker of the Georgian parliament, arrives in Ashgabat on June 6 for meetings with President Gurbanguly Berdymuhammedov and members of the Turkmen parliament. She will discuss the potential for future imports of Turkmen gas and restructuring Tbilisi’s 40-million US dollar debt for gas supplied in 1994-96.
Russian pipelines are the only current route for taking Turkmen gas to Georgia, but tense relations between Moscow and Tbilisi make it unclear how deliveries could take place at the moment.
When Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli visited Turkmenistan in March he said that Georgia was ready to become a “reliable partner” for transporting Turkmen gas to world markets via the south Caucasus, which was taken as meaning it wants to get involved in the Transcaspian Gas Pipeline project
Russian pipelines are the only current route for taking Turkmen gas to Georgia, but tense relations between Moscow and Tbilisi make it unclear how deliveries could take place at the moment.
When Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli visited Turkmenistan in March he said that Georgia was ready to become a “reliable partner” for transporting Turkmen gas to world markets via the south Caucasus, which was taken as meaning it wants to get involved in the Transcaspian Gas Pipeline project
