Bulgaria and Turkey are going to use their contacts to secure more natural gas for the Nabucco gas than the future European gas transit pipeline needs, according to Presidents Georgi Parvanov and Abdullah Gul.
Turkey's President Gul arrived on a two-day visit to Bulgaria on Monday, and his first meeting was with his Bulgarian counterpart Parvanov.
“Bulgaria through its contacts has reached agreements with Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and some other countries that are potential sources of natural gas for Nabucco. Turkey's contacts with these and other countries are even more intensive, which is why Bulgaria and Turkey are key in securing the necessary quantities of natural gas for Nabucco, and even a lot more than the 31 billion cubic meters of gas than its currently planned annual capacity,” Bulgaria's head of state Parvanov stated at his joint news conference with Gul.
The Turkish President supported Parvanov's words about Bulgaria and Turkey's key role for finding enough gas for Nabucco, the EU-sponsored pipeline project whose future has been questioned precisely because it has been unclear if enough suppliers can be found to fuel it.
The future of the Nabucco project was one of the priority topics discussed by Parvanov and Gul, reports Novinite.com.