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Hillary Clinton: â€˜Energy security is a matter of national and international securityâ€™

22 October 2012 11:03 (UTC +04:00)

The statement came from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her speech at the Georgetown university of the United States, APA reports.

"There is natural gas in the Caspian Sea and in Central Asia. They would like to sell it and Europe would like to buy it. But first of all they have to build pipelines. This is the aim of the project called the Southern corridor which will extend across the European continent. The United States have been the active partner for all its participants in order to bring this project to the stage of implementation", she said.
Clinton said that breaking up energy monopolies leads to stronger economies. When one nation relies too much on another for energy, it’s at risk of being controlled by that nation. That, in turn, leads to national security threats, something NATO recognized when it placed a priority on energy security. With issues like energy, the secretary said, everything’s on the table.
"Itâ€™s not just a matter of economic competition, as important as that is," she said. "Itâ€™s also a matter of national and international security."