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Bulgaria's president Rosen Plevneliev: the interconnection of the gas pipeline between Bulgaria and Romania is a priority
Bulgaria's president, Rosen Plevneliev on Friday specified that the interconnection of the gas pipeline between Bulgaria and Romania, which is part of the North-South corridor is a priority and this project will be finalised as soon as possible.
"We share the joint opinion that not all roads should lead to Brussels and not all gas pipelines, electricity pipelines, railways must be East-West and that they should and could also be North-South. We have an ambitious programme, we want to link the ports at the Mediterranean Sea with the Baltic Sea ones, it is about transport corridors that are crossing Romania and Bulgaria. Likewise, we wish to do this as regards the gas and electric infrastructure," said Rosen Plevneliev, at the Cotroceni presidential Palace.
He specified that Bulgaria has very much advanced as regards the negotiations with the Azeri TANAP (Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline) consortium, mentioning that in a few weeks Azerbaijan is ready to invest and expand the gas infrastructure in the region.
"The Bulgaria-Romania gas network interconnection is part of this North-South corridor, it advances and together with our Romanian friends, we have agreed that this will be a priority and that it will be finalised as soon as possible; given that it will be both ways, so that Romania could receive Azeri gas from us or another type of gas, through Greece and Bulgaria, and vice versa, so that we could receive gas from Central Europe through Romania or gas from the North. Categorically, we are determined that the interconnection topic to have a concrete applicability, and at the same time we want to consider not only the infrastructure, but also the joint, intelligent instruments, to buy-sell energy," the Bulgarian president said.
He also said that Romania and Bulgaria share the idea of a regional energy stock exchange, which could be located in Bucharest or Warsaw or in any other state.
"We have a liberalised market and opportunities for alternative deliveries, we will work for an integrated regional market, this is of strategic importance," Bulgaria's president added.