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Cyprus & Turkey should collaborate for the mutual benefit of both, when it comes to Gas Explorations and Distribution
Speaking before a joint sub-committee of
Congress, the US Special Envoy for Energy Affairs at the State Department Amos
Hochstein said that the development of energy reserves in the eastern
Mediterranean has become a top foreign policy priority of the United States.
According to Hochstein for the part of the plan relating to energy security to
be implemented there must first be an agreement in relation to the Cyprus
problem because the pipeline to Turkey will be passing through the Cyprus EEZ.
Energy plans in the eastern Mediterranean place Cyprus at the core of a project
of gigantic investments that will change things in terms of security, development
and regional welfare. In addition,
Turkey is one of the pillars of the Wests political and energy security.
The success of Cyprus third licensing with Exxon Mobil expressing interest, the
rekindling of Totals interest, the reconfirmation of ENIs interest and the
participation of Qatar Petroleum, despite Qatar’s very close ties and military
alliance with Turkey was certainly no accident.
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