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Poland wants energy corridor from Caspian

22 March 2007 [23:23] - TODAY.AZ
Polish President Lech Kaczynski's visit to Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan is expected to focus on the building of a crude oil transportation corridor from the Caspian Sea.

"One of the elements of such cooperation is cooperation in the energy sector," Piotr Naimski, the deputy economy minister who is in charge of diversification of sources of energy supplies, said Wednesday.

"We hope that Kazakh authorities will be able finalize their decision on the country's involvement in the Odessa-Brody-Plock project which truly may (be) called the Aktau-Georgia-Black Sea-Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk project."

The comments were reported by the PAP news agency.

Naimski said if the corridor were implemented, it will involve Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine and Poland.

Kaczynski's trip to Central Asia runs from March 28-31. UPI

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