VOL. XLV

No 45

11-November-2002

CASPIAN

Greece, Bulgaria Reach Political Understanding On Bapline Participation

Greece and Bulgaria have agreed that they, along with Russia, should each take a 33% share in the proposed Burgas-Alexandroupolis crude pipeline (Bapline). Speaking in Athens on 1 November, Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis said that he and visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Simeon Saxe-Coburg had decided on the political framework of this accord, that is the equal use by the three...