Plan for Azerbaijan-Poland crude oil pipeline resurrected by foreign minister

The influential Ukrainian daily Siegodnia quotes the Azerbaijan foreign minister Vilayata Guliyeva as saying his country prefers to have its crude oil transported to Poland via Ukraine instead of Turkey. The plan to transport oil from Baku by pipeline to Supska in Georgia on the Black Sea, then by tankers to Odessa in Ukraine and thereafter into another pipeline to Gdansk has been on the cards since 1998, but the project is just beginning to gather support. Guliyeva is visiting Kiev and is flying to Warsaw today. It is not ruled out that he will discuss the issue when in Poland. (Prawo i Gospodarka, page 6) S.M.