Cancelled South Stream Project to Seriously Damage Serbia: Gas Association

© Sputnik / Sergey Guneev / Go to the mediabankThe South Stream gas project would be very beneficial for Serbia and its cancellation may cause serious damage to the country, the President of the Serbian Gas Association Assembly told Sputnik Serbia Tuesday.
The South Stream gas project would be very beneficial for Serbia and its cancellation may cause serious damage to the country, the President of the Serbian Gas Association Assembly told Sputnik Serbia Tuesday. - Sputnik International
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The construction of South Stream gas pipeline would create a lot of jobs and bring profit to Serbia. The project's cancellation under the European Commission's pressure deprived the country of it, the Serbian Gas Association Assembly chief stresses.

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MOSCOW, December 2 (Sputnik) — The South Stream gas project would be very beneficial for Serbia and its cancellation may cause serious damage to the country, the President of the Serbian Gas Association Assembly told Sputnik Serbia Tuesday.

"The [South Stream] project is very important for Serbia: it could have provided a certain number of jobs for our citizens during the construction period, not to mention the profit from the pipeline's operation and subsequent revenues from gas transit. Therefore, the cancellation of the project could cause serious damage to Serbia," Vojislav Vuletic said.

He added that Europe has "harmed itself" by creating obstacles on the way to implementing the project.

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"It turns out to be that the problems are created by the bureaucrats from the European Commission, while the actual participants of the South Stream are very interested in implementing the project," Vuletic stressed.

In 2012 Russian energy giant Gazprom announced the construction of a South Stream pipeline across the Black Sea to reduce the chances of Russian gas being delivered to central and southern Europe through Ukraine being interrupted. The pipeline was expected to be fully operational by 2018.

The European Commission has taken a critical stance on the project, claiming that, according to EU Third Energy Package, it is illegal to own a pipeline and produce the natural gas that flows through it at the same time.

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Moscow has insisted that the construction of the pipeline does not contradict the regulations.

On December 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia was not willing to continue implementing the project in light of the European Commission's "non-constructive" stance on the matter. Gazprom CEO later announced that Russia is scrapping the project due to EU opposition to it and has no plans to revive it.

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