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OO RUEHAG RUEHDBU RUEHDF RUEHIK RUEHLN RUEHLZ RUEHROV RUEHVK RUEHYG
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O 041512Z DEC 06
FM AMEMBASSY ANKARA
TO RUEHC/SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 0164
INFO RUCNCIS/CIS COLLECTIVE
RUCNMEM/EU MEMBER STATES
RUEHIT/AMCONSUL ISTANBUL 1736
RHEBAAA/DEPT OF ENERGY WASHINGTON DC
RUCPDOC/DEPT OF COMMERCE WASHDC

UNCLAS ANKARA 006569 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
USDOC FOR 4212/ITA/MAC/CPD/CRUSNAK 
DOE FOR CHARLES WASHINGTON 
EUR ALSO FOR MATT BRYZA 
S/P FOR STEVE HELLMAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
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. 
 
Visit Ankara's Classified Web Site at 
http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/eur/ankara/ 
 
WILSON