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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Kiev wants role in Turkish gas pipelines - UPI.com

Kiev wants role in Turkish gas pipelines

Published: May 8, 2012 at 9:15 AM

ANKARA, Turkey, May 8 (UPI) -- Kiev could help with some of the infrastructure associated with a planned natural gas through Turkey, the Ukrainian prime minister told officials in Ankara.

Turkish officials had said a memorandum of understanding for the planned 1,240-mile Trans-Anatolian Pipeline should be ratified in a matter of days. The project would eventually carry natural gas from the BP-controlled Shah Deniz field in the Azeri waters of the Caspian Sea.

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