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   Published on: 6/16/2006   Last Visited: 6/10/2008

   With a length of 4,000km, the Nabucco gas pipeline will ensure gas delivery via the Mediterranean and Caspian Sea to Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tbilisi, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Austria.
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   With a length of 4,000km, the Nabucco gas pipeline will ensure gas delivery via the Mediterranean and Caspian Sea to Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tbilisi, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Austria.
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   With a length of 4,000km, the Nabucco gas pipeline will ensure gas delivery via the Mediterranean and Caspian Sea to Europe via Azerbaijan, Georgia, Tbilisi, Turkey, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and Austria.
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   The international energy conference which will take place on 10-11 October in Vilnius ( Lithuania) will be attended by the Presidents of Azerbaijan, the Ukraine, Poland, Georgia, and Lithuania, said the Ambassador of Lithuania to Azerbaijan, Kestutis Kudzmamas, on 5 October.
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   A closed meeting of Energy Ministers from Georgia, Azerbaijan, Lithuania and Poland was held in Georgia on 26 September.
   
   The meeting will be continues during the Warsaw summit to be held in the spring.The main issue of the summit was the opening of the Odessa-Brod-Gdansk pipeline.
   
   Eneko Landaburu, the head of the Foreign Relations Department of the European Commission, said that the EU supported Georgia on diversification of energy carriers and considers Georgia one of the key countries to deliver energy to Europe.
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   According to him, the section of BTC pipeline in Azerbaijan is longer than section in Georgia, but Georgia may receive huge finances from tariff payments.
   
   "It needs to take into consideration that there are many other advantages for Azerbaijan, including direct production of oil.In addition, Georgia is an available transit country and this factor should be taken into consideration," EBRD Banker said.
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   Azerbaijan has completed the construction of the South Caucasus gas pipeline allocated for gas export from the Shah Deniz field to Georgia and Turkey.
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   Saakashvili stressed that in fact, Russia summoned an alternative Summit attended by Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, but it did not prevent to reach a framework agreement on establishing a new route of Caspian oil to Europe via Georgia, Ukraine and Poland.
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   Zurab Gumberidze, the Georgian Ambassador to Azerbaijan, completing his term in Azerbaijan, stated to a farewell press-conference in Baku that Georgia had always fulfilled its obligations under the regional and international projects and would do so under the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars railway route.
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   The diplomat assured that the Government of Georgia will never step back from its obligations and resolve problems linked with the project timely.He was commenting on statements over the Baku-Tbilisi-Kars route made by the Armenians residing in the territory of Georgia.Generally, the diplomat appraised the level of political and economic relationships between the two countries.The cooperation in the energy sector is developing more dynamically, while the level of trade and economic relationships satisfies both sides, he noted.
   
   The diplomat noted that the amount of goods turnover reached $500mln.He voiced his confidence that the cooperation between the two countries will be further developed and deepened.Gumberidze stressed the necessity for the development of a contractual-legal basis between Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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   Agshin Mehdyev, the Azerbaijani Special Representative at the UN, informed Trend exclusively that the discussion of the resolution by the GUAM [a regional organization among Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova] at the UN General Assembly, originally scheduled for 6 December was postponed through the decision of GUAM.
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   General Assembly will discuss in New York the project of the new Resolution on the frozen conflicts in the territory of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova), the Head of the Foreign Relations Department of the Executive Apparat of the Azerbaijani President, Novruz Mammadov, said, Trend reports.He said that GUAM countries have prepared a new Resolution and presented it to the discussion of the General Assembly.
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   "This may result in the termination of trade relations regarding oil products with neighboring Azerbaijan, which is the main strategic partner of Georgia," he stated.
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   Fund "Millennium Challenge - Georgia" has signed two contracts on implementation of a project on rehabilitation of the Georgian Main Gas Pipeline.
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   Fund "Millennium Challenge - Georgia" is Tbilisi's branch of American MCC, that granted $40 mln. on the repair and rehabilitation works of the Georgia Gas Main.
   
   US granted funds on the rehabilitation of the gas pipe line as soon as Georgia repudiated to sell it to Russia's gas giant "GazProm".
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   It is a very positive case for GUAM countries (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) to get the world pubic more familiarized with the problems existing in our countries, the Ambassador said.
   
   Presently the GUAM member-countries are actively working to achieve a maximally positive resolution in these discussions, he said.
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   The Foreign Ministers of Azerbaijan Elmar Mammadyarov and Georgia Gela Bejuashvili demonstrated equal position regarding the settlement of the frozen conflicts in the territory of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldavia), both Ministers said in the briefing held as a result of the consultations conducted in Baku within the working visit of the Georgian Minister to Baku, Trend reports.
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   "The positions of Azerbaijan and Georgia are equal as positions of Moldavia and Ukraine to put an end to the frozen conflicts in GUAM territory and a relevant item has been included in the agenda of the U.N. Assembly General to be discussed on December 4," the Minister underlined.
   
   The Foreign Minister of the two countries also talked about the delimitation of the borders.It was decided to hold the next meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission in November in Baku.
   
   The Georgian Foreign Minister positively assessed the consultations in Baku.According to his, Georgia and Azerbaijan establish their relations at the level of strategic partnership.He stressed that during the consultations, discussions were held regarding the delivery of the Azerbaijani gas to Georgia."The bilateral co-operation in this sphere is very important, and Georgia is interested in the alternative gas delivery," Bejuashvili said.Answering the question about the role of Azerbaijan in the mediation mission between Georgia and Russia, he replied that "we do not need mediators in our relations with Russia.We will try to resolve this problem with our forces".In addition, he said that the neighbors can not stay away and may provide assistance.
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   Changing the starting date of the natural gas import from the Azerbaijani field of "Shah Deniz" does not impose problems for Georgia, the Georgian Energy Minister, Nika Giluari, stated on 18 October, Trend Special Correspondent in Tbilisi reports.
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   At the same time, Georgia will give guarantee, make a decision through which territory the railway will pass and provide guarantee for the transportation of cargos.