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Europe eyes Caspian energy, woos Turkmenistan
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 10 - 04 - 2008


The European Union told
Turkmenistan on Thursday it wanted to step up energy cooperation
as senior EU officials sat down for talks with their Central
Asian counterparts in the long-reclusive Caspian nation, according to Reuters.
Brussels sees Central Asia, lying on some of the world's
biggest oil and gas reserves, as key to its ambitions to
diversify energy supplies away from Russia which provides the
bloc with a quarter of its gas needs.
The European Union is particularly keen to convince
Turkmenistan to join the long-stalled Nabucco gas pipeline
project designed to link up Caspian gas with European markets.
"Ways of strengthening the dialogue on Trans-Caspian energy
corridors need to be discussed further including in the context
of ongoing feasibility studies and the results of these," the EU
said in a statement distributed to reporters on the closing day
of EU-Central Asia discussions.
EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner as
well as the French and Slovenian foreign ministers gathered in
the Turkmen capital Ashgabat this week for closed-door talks on
issues ranging from energy security to democracy.
Turkmenistan, Central Asia's top gas producer, and oil-rich
Kazakhstan are the main focus of EU interest in the strategic
region where competition is already rough with Russia, the
United States and China all vying for control.


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