Turkmenistan: Six European Delegations to Visit Ashgabat in April

Turkmenistan will host six visiting delegations from European Union member states in April.

Representatives from Austria, Bulgaria, Italy, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom will make separate visits to Ashgabat to drum up bilateral trade and energy sector cooperation, Russian news agency Regnum reported on April 5.

The European Union's commissioner for energy, Guenther Oettinger, is also expected to visit in April, the report added.

Oettinger, who was appointed commissioner in November 2009, recently told a German newspaper that the proposed Nabucco gas pipeline could be operational no earlier than 2018, four years later than planned.