Senior MP: Moscow Pressures Baku over Gas Deal with Georgia

Vice-Speaker of the Georgian Parliament Mikheil Machavariani, who has just recently visited Azerbaijan, said on November 24 that Russia is mounting pressure on Azerbaijan not to sell additional gas to Georgia.

?Russia is telling Azerbaijan that if this gas [exported by Russia to Azerbaijan] goes to Georgia the price will increase for Azerbaijan as well. But our Azeri colleagues told us that Azerbaijani leadership is keen to help Georgia and they are now looking for ways to solve this problem,? MP Mikheil Machavariani told Rustavi 2 TV.

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