Ukraine wants to build a gas pipeline bypassing RUSSIA
Ukraine may initiate the construction of a pipeline to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan to Europe, bypassing Russia via the Caspian Sea through Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Black Sea. On Tuesday the chairman of the board of National Joint Stock Company Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexei Ivchenko. According to the publication From-UA, Ivchenko said that during the visit of Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko in Turkmenistan, it was about the creation of a transnational consortium including the construction of a new gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Europe. The chapter Neftogaza said that he offered to Gazprom to continue to cooperate and jointly build a pipeline Alexandrov Gai (Kazakhstan) - Novopskov (Russia) with a length of 600 km, which will increase transit opportunities in Russia. The Russians are considering our proposal, calculate the economic, political, resource, expediency.
However, their decision is not of fundamental importance for us .... If they refuse to build through its territory, we will have good reason to use an alternative route, - said Ivchenko. Earlier, the President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko stated the need to rehabilitate and expand the Central Asia - Center.
In the new alliance, according to the Ukrainian leader, could enter Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
