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Serbia, the Balkan state that was part of the former Yugoslavia and has been a candidate nation for 10 years to be a member of the European Union, has completed an interconnector pipeline to Bulgaria giving the Serbs supply options of regasified LNG from Greece or pipeline gas from Azerbaijan to replace Russian supplies.

Sept 26 (LNGJ) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his Azerbaijan counterpart Ilham Aliyev have attended a ground-breaking ceremony for a new natural gas pipeline that will run from Turkey’s eastern province of Igdir to Sederek in western Azerbaijan. “The Igdir-Nakhchevan gas pipeline project we have launched will further strengthen our cooperation with Azerbaijan in the energy sector and will also contribute to the supply of gas to Europe,” Erdogan said.

   Analysts note that after Azerbaijan’s military offensive in the past week regained control of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region from ethnic Armenians, another dispute is looming with Armenia over the territory of Nakhchevan where the new pipeline will run. Like Nagorno-Karabakh, where the Armenian population has been isolated in their enclave from the country of Armenia, the Nakhchevan autonomous region of Azerbaijan borders Armenia on two sides and is 450 kilometres (280 miles) west of the Azerbaijan capital Baku.