Ali Hasanov invites Japan to Caspian Gas initiative

  14 March 2016    Read: 1038
Ali Hasanov invites Japan to Caspian Gas initiative
Ali Hasanov, national adviser to Azerbaijan`s president, has called on Japanese companies to join an initiative to transport gas from the Caspian Sea to Europe on a route that does not go through Russia, AzVision.az reports ciitng jen.jiji.com.
In a recent interview with Jiji Press in Tokyo, Hasanov said that his country hopes Japanese companies will expand their activities in the Caspian Sea.

Azerbaijan is promoting the Southern Gas Corridor initiative in cooperation with the European Union.

The European Union imports a large amount of gas from Russia via pipelines that go through Ukraine, but it hopes to reduce its dependence on Russia amid the Ukrainian crisis.

During her visit to Azerbaijan at the end of February, Federica Mogherini, the EU`s high representative for foreign affairs and security policy, emphasized that the Southern Gas Corridor initiative will play an important role in the EU`s strategy to diversify energy sources.

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