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Czech Prime Minister Topolanek: Nabucco Pipeline is not an anti-Russian Project |
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009JTW - Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, whose country currently holds the EU presidency, said at a Nabucco summit in Budapest that Nabucco "is not an anti-Russian project". Mr Topolanek argued the Russian pipelines would "maintain the EU's high energy dependency on Russia" and called them "a direct threat to the Nabucco project". "The Nabucco pipeline is a strategic project for the European Union, it will not only ensure energy supply, but serve the security and peace of the continent" Mirek Topolanek added.
The Nabucco pipeline would bring gas from Central Asia through Turkey to Europe, reducing the region's energy dependence on Russia.
Topolanek said at the summit that the price of gas is just one factor, but a lack of energy endangers independence. He further continued:
"The more vulnerable the EU's gas and oil supply is, the more exposed it is to the politics of extortion and short-sightedness. The Nabucco pipeline is not an anti-Russian project, but Europe wants to build it in its own interest. It would be a disappointment if Europe would be divided on the question of energy. It is time the European Union embraced this project and backed its implementation. Alternative supplies of energy resources must be independent both in terms of source and in terms of transit… Construction of alternative corridors for supplies of energy resources now needed
Topolanek urged the EU to show with regard to the Nabucco project that it is thinking about a joint energy policy, that there is solidarity between member states and that fast and concerted action can be taken to bring gas to Europe with an independent means.
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Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Journal of Turkish Weekly
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