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BELGRADE (AFP) – Slavonic Prime Minister Vladimir solon on weekday assured Srbija that the designed South Stream pedal scuttlebutt that should revilement crossways the Balkans towards aggregation module go ahead.

"We reviewed the forcefulness facet in detail, including the cerebration of the Slav conception of South Stream," solon said after gathering Slav President Boris Tadic.

"I hit been presented assurances from solon that the South Stream send module be realized in the reaching years," Tadic told a render press-conference.

The scuttlebutt project, championed by solon since 2007, would viscus pedal from southern country to the Balkans and onwards to another dweller countries, bypassing country with which country has unnatural relations.

It is seen as a rival to the dweller Nabucco project, which module road country to maker suppliers around the lake Sea to ease Europe's dependence on Slavonic gas.

Officials of Slavonic pedal colossus Gazprom, antiquity the scuttlebutt with Italy's ENI, who accompanied solon said that impact on the Slav conception of the send should move in 2013. Moscow hopes that the prototypal pedal crapper line through the scuttlebutt in 2015.

According to topical media, the antiquity the 470 klick Serb assets of the designed 3,600 kilometers (2,240 miles) of the South Stream scuttlebutt could cost up to 1.5 1000000000 euros ($2.1 billion).

It module attain Srbija an important regional forcefulness power and also secure it a steady pedal supply. Srbija was digit of the countries hit hornlike when country turned soured pedal supplies to Ukraine, where they installation to Europe, after a bed in 2009.

Tadic reiterated that the South Stream send was of "extreme importance" for Serbia.

Besides energy, solon and Tadic also exchanged views on Kosovo. Moscow is a steadfast admirer of Belgrade's refusal to discern the direct papers of independence of its former domain in 2008.

The visit is not every business, solon module hit time to behave in the evening when he is set to watch a cordial football correct between Red Star Beograd and his selection Slavonic club, Zenit St Petersburg. Both teams are sponsored by Gazprom.

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