Hungary's, Turkey's, Greece's, Serbia's and Macedonia's interest in the project’s implementation and the direct participation of their companies is clearly seen, Russian Ambassador to the EU notes

BERLIN, April 13. /TASS/. Russia sees interest from Hungary, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia in participation in the construction of European infrastructure for the Turkish Stream pipeline, Russian Ambassador to the European Union Vladimir Chizhov told TASS Monday. "Just before the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visited Moscow [on April 7 — TASS] foreign ministers of Hungary, Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Macedonia met in Budapest. They were discussing this topic [construction of European infrastructure for the Turkish stream —TASS]," Chizhov said.

"You can clearly see the interest in the project’s implementation and the direct participation of their companies," he said. On December 1, 2014 Gazprom and Turkish company Botas signed a memorandum on construction of a gas pipeline from Russia to Turkey via the Black Sea. The pipeline capacity will total 63 billion cubic meters of gas, of which about 50 billion cubic meters will be delivered to a new gas hub on the Turkish-Greek border. Gazprom Russkaya will be in charge of the pipeline construction.