BRUSSELS, Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Romania asked Kazakhstan to develop alternate gas-transportation routes bypassing the Russian Federation.
Foreign Minister Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu asked his Kazakh counterpart, Kasymzhomart Tokayev, to develop a way to extend its energy exports on routes in the Black Sea and Turkey as alternative to network across the Russian Federation. Ungurenau said he hoped Kazakhstan would focus on the value of Nabucco and Constanta-Trieste projects.
"Kazakhstan represents for Romania an important alternative of gas and crude oil supply," he said Monday following their meeting in Brussels.
He noted that some 85 percent of trade between the two countries was Romanian imports of gas and oil products.
The comments were reported by the Romanian news agency Rompres.
