Voice of Russia: South Stream to improve international energy security - Putin
Russia's President Vladimir Putin sent a greeting to participants and guests of the official ceremony, devoted to beginning of construction of a South Stream part in the territory of the Republic of Serbia, where he stressed construction of the gas pipeline would make a big input in improvement of international energy security, the Kremlin's press service said on Sunday.
The official beginning of the South Stream's construction is due later on the day.
"It is an important event not only for Serbia and the Balkan Peninsula countries, but for the entire European continent," the president's greeting reads.
"South Stream will unite along the bottom of the Black Sea Russia's biggest natural gas deposits will major markets in south-eastern Europe," Putin said. "It will assure reliable supplies of the fuel to the European consumers without risks related to transit. It will make a big input in improvement of the international energy security."