'Azerbaijan interested in supplying oil to Baltic markets'

Azerbaijan is very interested in the supply of oil and oil products in the Baltic Sea markets, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov said Tuesday in Vilnius, ELTA correspondent reports specially for Trend.

"Today, Azerbaijani oil is transported to Ukraine via the Odessa-Brody pipeline. Also there are different options for subsequent deliveries via Belarus and Poland to the Baltic Sea," said the Minister. The Azerbaijani Foreign Minister is participating in OSCE Ministerial Council Meeting in Vilnius.

According to him, in this context the nation has huge opportunities. "We in Azerbaijan support these projects because our supply of oil and oil products to the Baltic market is very interesting," Mammadyarov said.

He also noted the project to deliver liquefied gas within the Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI). According to the minister, AGRI will create new opportunities for delivery of Azerbaijani gas to various markets of the countries between the Black and Baltic Seas.

"We are now considering the serious possibility of [creating] a pipeline system [for gas supplies] via Turkey to the Balkans and farther to Central Europe. All of these projects not only have a right to exist, as well as cost-effective" ​​Mammadyarov said.


/Trend/