Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday Russia and Turkey have signed a deal to build Turkey's first nuclear-power plant, a project estimated to cost up to $20 billion, and the deal with Russia will be ratified by the countries' parliaments, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reports.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday Russia and
Turkey have signed a deal to build Turkey's first nuclear-power plant, a
project estimated to cost up to $20 billion, and the deal with Russia will be
ratified by the countries' parliaments, the Ihlas News Agency, or IHA, reports.
The deal, signed by Russia's Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin and Turkey's
Energy Minister Taner Yildiz during a visit by Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, calls for co-operation on building and operating a nuclear-power
station on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Erdogan said the nuclear power plant project will be completed in about seven
years.
Turkish state-run power provider Tetas on
Nov. 20, 2009
canceled a tender to build and operate the
country's first nuclear power station. Tetas had been considering a report on
the nuclear tender, which was held
Sept. 24, 2008
.
A consortium comprising Russian companies Atomstroyexport and OAO Inter RAO EES
(IRAO.RS) and Turkish company Park Teknik was the sole bidder in the tender to
build and operate a 4,000-megawatt nuclear power station in Akkuyu, near the
Turkish Mediterranean
port
of
Mersin
.
In a joint news conference with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, Erdogan said
Turkey
aims
to reach a $100 billion foreign trade volume with
Russia
within five years.
Erdogan said
Turkey
and
Russia
have
signed a total of 17 deals Wednesday, including energy to agriculture deals and
a visa exemption deal with
Russia
, which
was one of the important steps.
Russian President Medvedev said
Turkey
and
Russia
have
agreed to develop the Samsun-Ceyhan pipeline project, which aims to transport
oil from the
Black Sea
to the
Mediterranean
across
Turkey
,
avoiding the use of ships to cross the busy
Istanbul
Strait
.
Russian Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin said Tuesday that the construction of
a planned Turkish oil pipeline to be built from the
Black
Sea
port
of
Samsun
to
Ceyhan port on the
Mediterranean
is expected to cost $3 billion.
"
Russia
and
Turkey
aren't so-called partners, they are actually strategic partners," Medvedev
said.
Διαβάστε ακόμα
Παρ, 11 Οκτωβρίου 2024 - 20:08
Παρ, 11 Οκτωβρίου 2024 - 20:03
Πεμ, 10 Οκτωβρίου 2024 - 19:39
Πεμ, 10 Οκτωβρίου 2024 - 19:36
Τρι, 24 Σεπτεμβρίου 2024 - 19:58