Chirac has refused to accept Putin to become leader of South Stream

Former French President Jacques Chirac refused to take the post of project manager South Stream, RBC reports referring to the daily French newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur.

According to the French edition, the Prime Minister of Russia Vladimir Putin had hoped to entrust "the leadership of the project" South Stream "(South Stream) Chirac, but he" rejected the suggestion of his friend. " He, unlike Gerhard Schröder (headed by Nord Stream), does not want to "work for Gazprom.

Chirac - not the only candidate in the curators" South Stream. This post Gazprom also suggested that former Prime Minister Romano Prodi. Also, according to the media, this chair can take a Hungarian ex-Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany. Another politician involved in the "South Stream" is likely to be a former president of Croatia Stjepan Mesic. He will lead the company for the construction of the Croatian pipeline, if the country joins the project.

South Stream ( "South Stream") - a project pipeline that would pass under the Black Sea from Novorossiysk to the Bulgarian port of Varna, and then two of its branches pass through the Balkans to Italy and Austria. The exact routes of branches has not yet been approved. Project Indicators: underwater segment - 900 km, capacity - 63 billion cubic meters a year, the maximum burial depth - 2000 m. The shareholders of the project on an equal footing - Gazprom and Italy"s Eni. Total investment in construction, account for roughly 25 billion euros. Under the plan, the pipeline should begin in 2015

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