Kwasniewski meets Ukraine president, discusses Azerbaijan gas delivery

President Aleksander Kwasniewski assured Ukrainian president Leonid Kuchma, that Poland would help Ukraine protect its fair share of profits from the transit of Russian natural gas. Both presidents, meeting in Odessa, Ukraine, also discussed the possibility of Poland importing oil from Azerbaijan via a pipeline to Supsa in Georgia, then a tanker to Odessa and a pipeline to the Czech Republic. In order to connect to this line, Poland would have to build a 400 kilometer pipeline at an estimated cost of $700-$800 million. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.26) M.K.