According to former US Ambassador to Azerbaijan and former US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Matthew Bryza in his interview with the Azerbaijan News Agency Report, signing of an agreement between Ashgabat and Baku on the Dostluk field in the Caspian Sea removes the main political obstacle to the construction of the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline.

According to Matthew Bryza, the Dostluk field is not the only possible source of gas supplies for the Trans-Caspian pipeline. Bryza believes that another option is the Turkmen gas deposit - Block One.

According to him, the main challenge for Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is to work with potential investors to identify a plan that makes commercial sense for exporting these potentially new reserves of the Caspian natural gas to the West.

“During the administration of Clinton, the United States wanted to include Turkmenistan into the Southern Corridor through the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline”, Matthew Bryza concluded.

Correspondent, “The Golden Age”