Report: Netanyahu plans to visit Azerbaijan
News agencies in Azerbaijan report that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to visit Baku in December
Dan Arkin | 25/10/2016
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According to Azerbaijan’s State Customs Committee, trade turnover between Israel and Azerbaijan amounted to around $409.9 million as of January-September 2016. the Azeri Trend website reports that Netanyahu will hold meetings with Azerbaijani leadership during his expected visit.
In another matter, Trend also reports that the future of connecting Israeli gas to the Southern Gas Corridor is unclear, according to Sijbren de Jong, analyst at The Hague Center for Strategic Studies and expert in energy security. The Southern Gas Corridor is one of the priority energy projects for the EU. It envisages the transportation of 10 billion cubic meters of Azerbaijani gas from the Caspian region to the European countries through Georgia and Turkey.
Earlier, Cemil Ertem, advisor to the Turkish president, said that Turkey wants to connect Israeli gas supplies to the Southern Gas Corridor project.
“For the Israel-Turkey pipeline, there are essentially two routes possible: through Lebanese and Syrian waters or via Cypriot waters,” de Jong said.
The war in Syria rules out the first option, and the second route also is fraught with difficulties, he said, adding that so, the future of this pipeline is unclear.
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