Today within the XIII St. Petersburg International Economic Forum Alexey Miller, Chairman of Gazprom’s Management Committee met with Matej Lahovnik, Slovenia’s Minister of Economy.

“We are satisfied with the progress in the South Stream project implementation. As part of the project Gazprom has managed to reach mutually beneficial agreements with partners from Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary and Greece, as well as to start developing feasibility studies for the respective sections of the gas pipeline.

The South Stream project attracts the attention of other European countries: we hope Slovenia will take part in it before long. Today we have seen that our Slovenian partners are taking this opportunity seriously and share the opinion that the new gas transmission route is a strategic project providing not only additional natural gas supplies and steady economic growth to a specific country but energy security for a considerable part of the European continent,” said Alexey Miller.