Szijjarto meets Turkey PM in Ankara

Ankara, January 26 (MTI) – Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto met Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and two members of his cabinet for talks on energy and business cooperation and shared efforts to manage global challenges in Ankara on Monday.

Szijjarto told MTI over the phone that in the light of Russia’s dropping plans for the South Stream gas pipeline and mulling an alternative route to Turkey, the latter country will play a strategic role in supplying energy to Europe.

“We now need to make preparations for projects through which (Russian) gas in Turkey can be forwarded to central Europe”, Szijjarto said.

Szijjarto noted that Russia was in negotiations with Turkey concerning an annual supply of 63 billion cubic metres of natural gas, as well as on building a regional gas distributor near Turkey’s border with Greece.

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