Turkmenistan's president told his Russian counterpart on Friday that Turkmenistan wants to increase its gas exports via Russia.
Turkmenistan
's
president told his Russian counterpart on Friday that
Turkmenistan
wants
to increase its gas exports via
Russia
.
"Russia is our long-term partner, and so based on existing bilateral
agreements, we are ready to boost natural gas exports to Russia,"
President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov told President Dmitry Medvedev, who is on
a two-day visit to the energy-rich central Asian state.
The two leaders met in
Turkmenbashi
City
, a
small resort city on the
Caspian Sea
,
renamed in 1993 after the country's late leader.
Russia
,
Turkmenistan
and
China
in
2007 signed an agreement to build a gas pipeline along the shore of the
Caspian
Sea
to boost supplies of central Asian gas to
Europe
.
Russia
had
wanted the line to join its planned South Stream pipeline to export central
Asian gas to
Europe
via
Russia
, but
the project stalled in the face of the economic crisis.
The world economic downturn has reduced European demand for gas, leaving
Moscow
doubtful over whether it needs the planned gas pipeline, the Kommersant
business daily wrote Thursday.
Russia
has
dramatically reduced its purchases of Turkmen gas. In 2008,
Moscow
bought
around 50 billion cubic meters while this year it imported only 7.9 billion
cubic meters of gas, according to Kremlin figures.
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