AZERBAIJAN: Turkish and Azeri leaders meet in Baku, talk about joint pipeline

Record ID: 217728

  • Title: AZERBAIJAN: Turkish and Azeri leaders meet in Baku, talk about joint pipeline
  • Date: 4th April 2014
  • Summary: BAKU, AZERBAIJAN (APRIL 4, 2014) (REUTERS) TURKISH PRIME MINISTER, TAYYIP ERDOGAN, AND PRESIDENT OF AZERBAIJAN, ILHAM ALIYEV, WALKING INTO MEETING ROOM AND SITTING DOWN PORTRAIT OF HEYDAR ALIYEV, FORMER PRESIDENT AND ILHAM ALIYEV'S FATHER VARIOUS OF ALIYEV TALKING VARIOUS OF ERDOGAN TALKING ERDOGAN AND ALIYEV WALKING INTO NEWS CONFERENCE ROOM AND STANDING BEHIND PODIUMS
  • Embargoed: 19th April 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Azerbaijan
  • Country: Azerbaijan
  • Topics: International Relations,Politics,Energy
  • Reuters ID: LVA5PK3RKRV4XEOXLYAWQBMR1HCA
  • Story Text: The leaders of Turkey and Azerbaijan met on Friday (April 4) to talk about a range of regional issues, including their goal of delivering Azeri natural gas across Turkey to Europe through the Trans-Anatolian natural gas pipeline project (TANAP).
    Turkey and Azerbaijan signed an inter-governmental agreement in 2012 at an Istanbul ceremony to launch the project, which will pipe 16 billion cubic metres of gas a year from Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz II field.
    The leaders sat for a meeting on Friday before holding a news conference where they cheered cooperation on TANAP.
    "God willing, in the next few months we will take the steps, and in 2018 reach the goal of the TANAP project. This international project will strengthen the brotherly relations between us," Erdogan said.
    "We are trying to fulfil this gas project on time. According to the information that we're receiving, everything's identical per schedule, and I hope in 2018, I, together with my dear brother will mark its opening," Aliyev said.
    Under the project, some 10 bcm of gas is planned to be shipped to Europe, while Turkey will get the remaining 6 bcm. The project is designed to be expandable to 30 bcm and ultimately 60 bcm.
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