Bulgaria's Prime
Minister Borisov has made it clear that there is hardly anyway that the
Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline will be built, reacting to an initiative for
a joint position on part of the other participants, Russia and
Greece.
Earlier on Monday,
Russian Energy Minister Sergey Shmatko announced that Russia and Greece will be
setting up a working group to draft a joint position on the
Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline project.
Borisov commented in
Sofia that the three shareholders in Trans-Balkan Pipeline, Bulgaria, Greece,
and Russia, must await the results from the much anticipated environmental
assessment of the project. And there is no way that assessment could be
positive, he added.