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GUL WELCOMES FRANCE BACK TO NABUCCO PIPELINE PROJECT
The News International
Friday, October 09, 2009
PARIS: Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Friday told his French
counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that Ankara would welcome GDF Suez back
to the EU-led Nabucco pipeline project after it was sidelined in 2008,
officials said.
Meeting with Gul at the Elysee palace, Sarkozy "voiced his support for
the Nabucco project and said he hoped French companies can fully take
part, in particular GDF Suez," an official at the French presidency
told reporters.
Gul assured him that "French companies are welcome in the project"
although he stressed that Turkey was only one of six international
partners building the 3,300-kilometre (2,050-mile) pipeline, the
official said.
France's Gaz de France (GDF), which had yet to merge with energy
giant Suez, was excluded early last year from the pipeline consortium.
Officials suggested at the time that Ankara vetoed France's bid
in reprisal for the French parliament's recognition as genocide of
the World War I mass killings of Armenians in Turkey's predecessor,
the Ottoman Empire.
From: Baghdasarian
The News International
Friday, October 09, 2009
PARIS: Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Friday told his French
counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that Ankara would welcome GDF Suez back
to the EU-led Nabucco pipeline project after it was sidelined in 2008,
officials said.
Meeting with Gul at the Elysee palace, Sarkozy "voiced his support for
the Nabucco project and said he hoped French companies can fully take
part, in particular GDF Suez," an official at the French presidency
told reporters.
Gul assured him that "French companies are welcome in the project"
although he stressed that Turkey was only one of six international
partners building the 3,300-kilometre (2,050-mile) pipeline, the
official said.
France's Gaz de France (GDF), which had yet to merge with energy
giant Suez, was excluded early last year from the pipeline consortium.
Officials suggested at the time that Ankara vetoed France's bid
in reprisal for the French parliament's recognition as genocide of
the World War I mass killings of Armenians in Turkey's predecessor,
the Ottoman Empire.
From: Baghdasarian