In Moscow at the talks the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymuhamedov failed signing of the document on the pipeline "East - West" in Turkmenistan, which will build the "Gazprom". This writes the newspaper "Vedomosti".
Planned to sign an agreement on the outcome of negotiations the presidents, but signed the documents did not prove it. The newspaper Kommersant wrote that the whole of Moscow and Ashgabat have signed 11 agreements and protocols, and 1 memorandum.
It is anticipated that the pipeline "East - West", which will connect the north-eastern gas fields of Turkmenistan to the Caspian Sea, will supply gas to Russia leading the Caspian pipeline. Construction should begin on the last in 2009. The cost of the project "East - West", according to experts, will be at least a billion dollars. Earlier, Gazprom said that it would build "East - West" at their own expense.
Sources Vedomosti reported that Gazprom is not on the gas pipeline "East - West" excess funds, and Ashgabat is planning to build pipelines bypassing Russia. This Trans-Turkey pipeline and Nabucco - in Europe.
Assistant to the President Sergey Prikhodko stated that the document is only scheduled to finalize and sign later. Top managers of Gazprom and other officials refused to comment on the situation.
Kommersant said that the agreement on gas pipeline "East - West" may be signed within the framework of the St Petersburg Economic Forum in June 2009 or in the traditionally held in the July race for the prize of the President of Russia.
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