Turkmen president and Georgian foreign minister meet

Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met Georgian Foreign Minister Grigory Vashadze in Ashkhabad on Thursday, Trend reports.

The sides exchanged views on bilateral and multilateral cooperation, inter-state relations, energy.

Iosif Chakhvashvili, Georgian Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador to Turkmenistan, said that Turkmenistan is trying to speed up realization of the Trans-Caspian Gas Pipeline, Nabucco, Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector (AGRI).

Georgia offers reliable and safe transit of energy carriers from the Caspian Sea to Middle Asia with its experience in operation of the Baku-Tbilisi,Ceyhan, Baku-Supsa, Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum Pipelines.

Turkmenistan promotes diversification of export routes of energy supply for global markets, including European markets. Georgia is an important link in the transport corridor of Trans-Caucasus.

Experts believe that the Caspian route for transport of energy resources to Europe is more advantageous. Turkmenistan has the fourth largest gas reserves in the world, after Russia, Iran and Qatar. It may be connected with Nabucco.

Capacity of Nabucco is planned at 31 billion cubic meters of gas annually. OMV (Austria), MOL (Hungary), Bulgargaz (Bulgaria, Transgaz (Romania), Botas (Turkey) and RWE (Germany) are shares of the project.

The AGRI project will transport liquefied gas through Azerbaijan and the Black Sea coast of Georgia to Romania.