© Agence France-PresseGerhard Roiss, CEO of energy group OMV AG
The South Stream gas pipeline project is too important for the EU to be "put on ice", the head of Austrian energy group OMV, Gerhard Roiss, stressed,
even speaking of possible European law exceptions for Gazprom in order to speed up negotiations.
In an interview with the
WirtschaftsBlatt newspaper, Roiss said that it's unrealistic to suggest that Austria, which receives a third of its gas from Gazprom, and Europe as a whole, would be able to cope without Russian supplies.
"If we can obtain large amounts of gas from a particular region, then we need to give investors the chance to build gas highways," he explained.
"Negotiations for South Stream should therefore be accelerated, but not put on ice."The South Stream project must
"undoubtedly" comply with European Law, but "there can be exceptions in some areas," Roiss added.
According to the OMV chief, it's up to Gazprom to negotiate those
"exceptions" with the European Union authorities.
Roiss was speaking ahead of Vladimir Putin's visit to Vienna on Tuesday, which would see OMV and Gazprom signing a deal on bringing the South Stream gas pipeline to Austria as was agreed in April.
Comment: So we are meant to believe that the acting president after the coup was simply misinformed. The US has a way of blaming the intelligence agencies when the blowback from the lies hits them. It is worth noting that the same false intelligence that Turchynov allegedly received was the same intelligence that was passed on to the US, EU and NATO, who all repeated ad nausea: "The Russians are coming, the Russians are coming."
Will NATO's clown-in-chief, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, or Obama come out and admit that they too were wrong all along? Hardly! That intelligence served the purpose wonderfully, gave NATO reason for existing and advanced the prospect of a new cold war.
Oleksander Turchynov, by the way, used to head the Ukraine's intelligence agency, so the idea that he was 'last to know about it' is utter BS...
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