Ukrainian PM to visit Azerbaijan

Ukraine’s Prime Minister Yuliya Timoshenko will visit Azerbaijan in late March, a Ukrainian parliament member visiting Baku said.

Andrey Shkil said that during the visit, Timoshenko would meet with the Azerbaijani authorities to discuss issues of energy cooperation as well as hold consultations on the “White Stream” gas pipeline project.

The “White Stream” route, which was proposed by Timoshenko during a meeting with the European Union’s Commission for External Relations Benita Ferrero-Waldner in Brussels in February, envisions taking of Turkmenistan’s gas to Europe through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine’s Crimea under the Black Sea.*