Turkey Has New Strategic Goal of Becoming Energy Bridge

April 14, 2006 - 20:18 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Turkey has set a strategic goal of playing the role of energy bridge in East-West and North-South transport corridors. Turkish MFA representative Midhat Rende said that Ankara is working out a new energy strategy to that end. In his words, there is a task of turning port Ceyhan into an energy trade center in the near future.



The favorable geo-strategic location of Turkey, in his words, provides full opportunity for that. Rende said that the project of Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) oil pipeline that is close to completion, will play an important role in implementation of the plan of diversification of energy routes of US and European countries,» the Turkish MFA representative said. He also emphasized that Turkey highlights the North-South corridor as well and wants to become a transit country in that field, AzerTaj reports.



We remark that at the Vienna meeting of Foreign Ministers of EU Troika and Turkey last month it was suggested that Ankara take part in future talks on the matter.
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