Have events in Georgia made the Nabucco gas pipeline bypassing Russia project irreversible?
Nabucco is an EU project intended to increase its energy security. From Russia? Yes, from Russia? And there are reasons for that. I have been ambassador in Moscow for four years, and Russia has turned off the gas three times to various countries in that time. Lets not fool ourselves. It happens. We have to be sure that it wont happen to us the next time. We have ways to make ourselves more secure, and thats what we are doing. There will be an oil summit in London that Libya and Venezuela are invited to, but not Russia. Thats not true. I sent the invitation to President Medvedev to take part in the summit this morning. All suppliers should be represented there. High prices for energy resources lead to economic instability and suppliers suffer from that as well. They are also interested in discussing the situation. And Russia should take part in that discussion. In the time you have worked in Moscow, you have practically turned from a witness of domestic political life to a participant i
