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President of European Commission: President Ilham Aliyev openly stated that Azerbaijan supports Nabucco project

14 January 2011 08:20 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Viktoria Dementyeva â€“ APA. â€œA commercial decision must be made on Nabucco project. It is already clear that Nabucco is the major project within the framework of the South Corridor, as it will be possible to deliver more gas to Europe through this pipeline. Nabucco is also profitable for the countries producing natural gas,â€ President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said in his interview to a group of journalists in Baku, APA reports. As regards the realization of Nabucco project, transportation of Shahdeniz gas through the pipeline that will be constructed basing on this project, Jose Manuel Barroso said all these are commercial decisions, these decisions must be made on the commercial level.
â€œBut these decisions can also be supported on the political level. The Nabucco-related decision must be made by the business companies, I reiterate that this is a commercial decision. Yesterday President Ilham Aliyev openly stated that Azerbaijan supports this process. As regards Turkey, this country also supports this project. Therefore, the companies must have a say. We can not make decision instead of the companies, we can only give political support,â€ he said.