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MERKEL, MEDVEDEV OPEN GAS PIPELINE
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 8, 2011 - 14:36 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The leaders of Germany and Russia are officially
opening a euro7.4 billion ($10.2 billion) natural gas pipeline that
directly links western Europe with Siberia's vast gas reserves.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev were meeting
Tuesday, November 8, in the village of Lubmin on Germany's Baltic
Seacoast where the 1,200-kilometer (760-mile) Nord Stream underwater
pipeline reaches land.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his Dutch counterpart Mark
Rutte are also attending the ceremony in a sign of the political
importance of Europe's newest energy link, meant to strengthen the
security of the gas supply, The Associated Press reported.
The pipeline is to ferry the gas from near St. Petersburg under the
Baltic Sea to Lubmin by circumventing traditional overland transit
routes in Poland and Ukraine .
PanARMENIAN.Net
November 8, 2011 - 14:36 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - The leaders of Germany and Russia are officially
opening a euro7.4 billion ($10.2 billion) natural gas pipeline that
directly links western Europe with Siberia's vast gas reserves.
Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Dmitry Medvedev were meeting
Tuesday, November 8, in the village of Lubmin on Germany's Baltic
Seacoast where the 1,200-kilometer (760-mile) Nord Stream underwater
pipeline reaches land.
French Prime Minister Francois Fillon and his Dutch counterpart Mark
Rutte are also attending the ceremony in a sign of the political
importance of Europe's newest energy link, meant to strengthen the
security of the gas supply, The Associated Press reported.
The pipeline is to ferry the gas from near St. Petersburg under the
Baltic Sea to Lubmin by circumventing traditional overland transit
routes in Poland and Ukraine .