European Commission and Turkey upgrade energy cooperation

The European Commission has proposed Turkey to upgrade cooperation through launching high-level energy dialogue, Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic tweeted today.

The agreement was reached during the meeting with Turkish Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Taner Yildiz before the first meeting of the Advisory Council of the Southern Gas Corridor that started in Baku today.Sefcovic said that the negotiations will start soon.

The meeting will focus on the possible problems in the implementation of the project. The meeting is being attended by Italian Deputy State Secretary for Economic Development, Claudio de Vincenti, energy ministers of Greece, Georgia and Bulgaria, Panagiotis Lafazanis, Kakha Kaladze and Temenujka Petkova, and Maros Sefcovic.

Representatives of all transit countries of the Southern Gas Corridor (Georgia, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Albania and Bulgaria) have been also invited to participate in the meeting, Trend reports.