(MIL) BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA'S DEFENSE MINISTER VISITS TURKEY'S TOP COMMANDER.ANKARA, Jul 21, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Bosnia-Herzegovina's Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic visited Chief of Turkey's General Staff Gen. Ilker Basbug on Monday. Cikotic and Basbug discussed military relations between the two countries as well as regional security issues during the meeting. MILAN Milan, prince and king of Serbia Milan (Milan Obrenović) (mĭl`än ōbrĕ`nəvĭch), 1854–1901, prince (1868–82) and king (1882–89) of Serbia; grandnephew of Miloš Obrenović. , Jul 21, 2009 (TUR) -- Turkey's Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said the Nabucco Pipeline Project was not an alternative to the Interconnector Turkey-Italy-Greece project (ITGI ITGI IT Governance Institute ITGI Iffco-Tokio General Insurance Company (India) ), adding that parties would soon reach a joint decision on the fate of this project. Yildiz who addressed the "Economic and Financial Forum for the Mediterranean" in Milan, briefed the forum on Turkey's energy policies and the recent developments. Minister Yildiz, who tried to clear doubts about ITGI in Italian public which arose after the signing of the intergovernmental agreement on Nabucco project, said Turkey did not give up on ITGI. He said once the deal on ITGI was signed, the geopolitical ge·o·pol·i·tics n. (used with a sing. verb) 1. The study of the relationship among politics and geography, demography, and economics, especially with respect to the foreign policy of a nation. 2. a. importance of Italy and Greece would increase. Turkey, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania recently signed the intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco Pipeline Project in Ankara which is regarded as a "turning point" for the 3,300-kilometer pipeline that will carry Caspian and Central Asian natural gas to Austria in Europe to reduce EU dependence on Russian gas. The Turkey-Greece-Italy (ITGI) pipeline which also is an integral part of Europe's plan to cut its dependence on Russian natural gas, will connect Azerbaijan's Shah Deniz gas field Shah Deniz gas field is the largest natural gas field in Azerbaijan. It is situated in the South Caspian Sea, off the coast of Azerbaijan, approximately 70 kilometers southeast of Bakubat, at a depth of 600 metres. The field covers approximately 860 square kilometers. to Italy via Turkey and the Adriatic. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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