GAZ DE FRANCE IN TURKEY NABUCCO GAS PIPELINE SNUB
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FRENCH government has withdrawn an application for Gaz de France to become the seventh partner in the Turkey-to-central Europe Nabucco pipeline project following a blocking of GdF's plans by Turkish ministers. France trade minister Hervé Novelli claimed the Turkish government had acted against GdF because the French National Assembly had voted to outlaw denial of the contested First World War Armenian genocide in Turkey
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THE FRENCH government has withdrawn an application for Gaz de France to become the seventh partner in the Turkey-to-central Europe Nabucco pipeline project following a blocking of GdF's plans by Turkish ministers. France trade minister Hervé Novelli claimed the Turkish government had acted against GdF because the French National Assembly had voted to outlaw denial of the contested First World War Armenian genocide in Turkey
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