KIEV, July 14 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine welcomed...
republic is interested in joining the project at all the stages, "from design to operation."Honcharuk said the project"s implementation would bring about geopolitical shifts in the region and substantially change the regional infrastructure of natural gas transportation.
The Nabucco pipeline is seen as a rival to the Moscow-backed South Stream project designed to annually pump 31 billion cubic meters of Central Asian and Russian gas to the Balkans and onto other European countries, with the pipeline"s capacity expected to be eventually increased to 63 billion cubic meters annually.
Europe has expressed concerns about being dependent on Russia, which supplies a quarter of its gas needs. Calls for diversified supplies intensified following a recent bitter price dispute between Russia and Ukraine in early 2009, when Moscow cut off gas to Ukraine, affecting consumers across Europe.
Moscow has argued, however, that South Stream and Nord Stream would
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