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The Nabucco pipeline - the EU hopes construction will begin in 2010 (Photo: Nagorno-Karabakh foreign ministry)

Turkmenistan to cut EU dependence on Russian gas

Turkmenistan has agreed to supply 10 billion cubic metres of natural gas to the European Union each year - something that should cut the energy-hungry bloc's dependence on gas from Russia.

"The president [Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov] gave us assurances that 10 bcm will be set aside for Europe in addition to possibilities in new fields to be tendered," EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner told the Financial Times on Sunday (13 April). \n \nMs Ferrero-Waldner describe...

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The Nabucco pipeline - the EU hopes construction will begin in 2010 (Photo: Nagorno-Karabakh foreign ministry)

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