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"Kazakhstan is interested in extending the pipeline to Płock and later to Gdańsk, to reach the Baltic Sea," said Nazarbajev during a press conference after the meeting with Yushchenko. He added that Kazakhstan is willing to participate in the construction of the pipeline as a shareholder of a company that would own the pipe. Nazarbajev said the current length of the pipeline allows it to send oil only to Ukraine and Belarus. Should the pipeline be extended, the oil would be exported to Northern Europe as well. In the nearest decade Kazakhstan expects to triple oil mining so that it reaches 140-170 tonnes a year.