Romania, Azerbaijan, Georgia to sign declaration on liquefied gas project

The presidents of Georgia and Romania, Mikhail Saakashvili and Traian Basescu, and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Tuesday will meet Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the latter’s residence Gyanjlik to discuss the project of pumping liquefied gas from Azerbaijan to Romania via Georgia’s territory, according to Itar Tass newswire. The meeting is expected to yield a declaration of political support to the four-billion gas project AGRI, or Azerbaijan-Georgia-Romania Interconnector. The agreement on the project was reached in April 2010, when the three governments signed a cooperation memorandum in the area of liquefied gas and its transportation. A month later, the sides met in Tbilisi to sign a protocol on the establishment of a joint venture to implement the project that provides for Azerbaijan’s gas transportation to Georgia’s Black Sea coast, where it would be liquefied to be further shipped by sea to the Romanian port of Constanta. In Constanta, the gas will be de-liquefied to be supplied to consumers in Romania and other European countries. A relevant infrastructure will be constructed in Georgia and Romania under the project. Itar Tass