Identifier	Created	Classification	Origin
06ANKARA6569	2006-12-04 15:12:00	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	Embassy Ankara

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TURKEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN 3-WAY MEETING ON AZERI

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O 041512Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0164
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DOE FOR CHARLES WASHINGTON 
EUR ALSO FOR MATT BRYZA 
S/P FOR STEVE HELLMAN 
 
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TAGS: ENRG EPET PREL TU GG AJ
SUBJECT: TURKEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN 3-WAY MEETING ON AZERI 
GAS DECEMBER 8 
 
REF: A. TBILISI 3140 
 
     
B. BAKU 1754 
     
C. ANKARA 6396

1. (SBU) The Turkish MFA confirms that Energy Minister Hilmi
Guler has agreed to participate in an
Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey meeting on natural gas in Tbilisi
on December 8 (refs).

2. (SBU) On November 22, Undersecretary Sami Demirbilek
reiterated to us Turkey's willingness to help Georgia with
gas for this winter, as agreed by Prime Minister Erdogan
during the BTC events in July. He stressed that Turkey was
waiting for Azerbaijan to decide what it wanted to do and
then for Azerbaijan and Georgia to strike an arrangment.
Once this was agreed between Georgia and Azerbaijan, he
thought it would be relatively easily to devise a formula
that would make Turkey "whole" by agreement to postpone
delivery of contracted Shah Deniz volumes at the reduced
price to future years. He endorsed Statoil's proposition of
a two step process: first political agreement, then
implementation of the commercial arrangements.
Fundamentally, however, Demirbilek said the BP-led consortium
was having problems with the new gas wells and questioned
whether or not Shah Deniz gas was available at all for export.

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WILSON