Ukraine ready to provide free capacity for carrying natural gas from Caspian Sea to Europe

ECONOMICS  05 February 2023 - 09:55

Ukraine's strategic interests are cooperation with the European Union (EU), the US, Türkiye and Azerbaijan, said Ukraine's Deputy Minister of Energy Mykola Kolesnik.

According to him, despite the full-scale war, Ukraine is ready to provide free capacity in the strategically important process of transporting natural gas from the Caspian Sea to the member countries of the European Union.

“One of the key infrastructure projects within the framework of cooperation with Azerbaijan is the Eurasian Oil Transport Corridor project to create a new route for transporting oil from the Caspian region to the EU markets. We are interested in the implementation of the Southern Gas Corridor project and are ready to cooperate in diversifying the ways of supplying nature,” he said at the Ninth Ministerial Meeting of the Advisory Council of the Southern Gas Corridor in Baku on February 4, Report informs.

Kolesnik added that today Ukraine is a full partner of the parties in the framework of cooperation in the oil and gas complex.

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