Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries participating in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline and the Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline

Support to Plinacro´s project
 
On Wednesday, 12 June 2013, a meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the countries participating in the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) and the Ionian-Adriatic Pipeline (IAP) was held in Dubrovnik. At this meeting a political support was given to the implementation of these projects, which will provide diversification of gas sources and gas supply routes. Along with Ms Vesna Pusić at the meeting was also present Mr Aldo Bumci, the Albanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Zlatko Lagumdžija, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Mr Dimitris Avramopulos, the Greek Minister of Foreign affairs, Mr Igor Lukšić, the Deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro and Ms Marta Dassi, the Italian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs. The idea of the countries participating in TAP and IAP is to provide supply of Europe with the Caspian and the Azerbaijani gas, in cooperation with the Republic of Azerbaijan, as well as to connect TAP and IAP, so that the gas would be transported via Greece to Albania and Italy and from Albania, through the special branch of the pipeline, along the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea to Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia.
Croatia has been cooperating with TAP since 2011, when Plinacro signed a Memorandum of Understanding and cooperation on the territory of the South-East Europe with the international company The Trans Adriatic Pipeline AG (TAP). The importance of TAP and IAP for Croatia was always exceptional since Plinacro initiated IAP project with the aim to provide gasification of the Croatian South, to ensure possibility of supplying gas from the Caspian and the central-eastern sources as well as to achieve additional income from transit of gas. TAP project is a precondition for implementation of IAP since connecting IAP to TAP will provide supply of gas from the above mentioned new sources and significant enhancement of diversification and security of gas supply.