Stanislau Husak: «Trans-Black Sea Pipeline would give Minsk bargaining chips on negotiations with Moscow»

Azerbaijan, Georgia, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine signed the agreement on construction the Trans-Black Sea Pipeline on the Energy Security Conference in Vilnius. It is planned to spend $700 million on the extension of the pipeline from Brody to Plock and Gdansk. The idea of the pipeline construction with Belarus taking part was proposed by the Belarusian Popular Front Party in 1990-th. Stanislau Husak, economist, one of the idea initiators on the Trans-Black Sea Pipeline construction comments the signed without Belarus agreement.