Moscow hasn’t given up on its plans to build a pipeline to carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe across the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed.
“The southern direction is not yet written off,” Lavrov told sputniknews.com earlier this week.
“Sometime in February, I think Gazprom signed a memorandum of mutual understanding together with Italy’s Edison and Greece’s DEPA on the possible gas deliveries through third countries under the Black Sea to Greece, then Italy,” Lavrov added.
Russian media reported last month that the country’s energy giant Gazprom had proposed a new option to revive the South Stream pipeline …read more
Source: Novinite
