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    TURKMENISTAN: ASHGABAT'S ENERGY FOCUS MOVES BEYOND MOSCOW

    http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/news /articles/eav101909a.shtml
    10/19/09

    Agakhanov, says.

    Agakhanov described the long-standing gas dispute between the two as
    "unlocked." But the envoy stressed that "Turkmenistan, following the
    idea of diversification of gas export routes, does not see in Russia
    a single partner."

    In an exclusive interview with the Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya
    Gazeta, Agakhanov insisted bilateral trade between Turkmenistan and
    Russia was not hit by the months-long freeze on gas exports following
    an April explosion on a key pipeline which Ashgabat accused Gazprom
    of orchestrating.

    Trade turnover in 2008 amounted to $6 billion, he said. But "trade
    between the two countries in January-August 2009 compared with same
    period in 2008 [?] amounted to $5.12 billion," he claimed citing an
    increase in "goods, technologies and services."

    Agakhanov added that Ashgabat's participation in the European-backed
    Nabucco pipeline remains a possibility. But he cautioned competing
    Turkmen and Azeri claims of ownership of three Caspian Sea hydrocarbon
    blocks could derail the project. "This idea is constrained by a number
    of objective and subjective factors," he said on October 19.
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