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President Basescu wants ‘determined steps' on Nabucco, AGRI
President Traian Basescu on Monday said the strategic partnership with Azerbaijan will be promoted as a priority, so that determined steps should be made on Nabucco pipeline and AGRI (Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector) files.
'The strategic partnership with Azerbaijan will continue to be promoted as a priority so that determined steps should be made on Nabucco and AGRI files, but also for achieving the Black Sea-Caspian Sea goods transport corridor, together with Turkmenistan and Georgia. Romania should exert efforts for the achievement of the trans-Caspian gas pipeline', Basescu said in an address to the annual meeting with the ambassadors accredited to Romania.
He stressed Romania will keep supporting Georgia's European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations.
The Romanian leader spoke of the economic competitiveness, which he said chiefly depends on ensuring the energy demand.
'Romania is capable of contributing to the development and implementation of an efficient energy security policy, given the fact we, by our geographical location, can provide the best route to the transport of the Caspian natural gas to Europe. We have developed excellent bilateral relations with all the Central Asian supplying states and we wish to put such relations to good use in terms of energy security to the benefit of the entire European space', he underscored.
Basescu explained that capitalising on the Caspian energy resources to the utmost however depends on a genuinely common approach of the EU to the relations with the supplier states.
'As far as we are concerned, we keep our commitments made as part of Nabucco project and we shall act so that the AGRI interconnector should become a reality. The idea of the transport corridors also backs the idea we have already launched, namely a direct link between the Black Sea and the North Sea via the Danube-Main-Rhine river route, the potential of which cannot be fully capitalised on economy wise as a result of that fact that distinct navigation regimes, specific of the Danube and Rhine rivers are being maintained', Basescu said.