No negotiations over Armenia’s participation in the Nabucco project are under way, Andris Piebalgs, Commissioner for Energy, European Commission, stated at the Gas Infrastructure World Caspian-2009 conference in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Armenia is not in the list of participating countries, Azeri mass media report, referring to the European official.

Early this September, the Turkey-based Star newspaper reported the European Union (EU), which rendered great assistance to Armenia and Turkey in reaching an agreement, wanted the planned Nabucco natural gas pipeline to run through Armenia, not Georgia, as a transit country. The normalization of Armenian-Turkish relations might be accompanied by changes in the regional energy balance. Armenia was announced a prospective participant in the Nabucco project.