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RUSSIA: February 6, 2008
From PlanetArk

MOSCOW - Poland hopes to convince Russia to abandon the Nord Stream gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea and back an alternative land route across its soil when their leaders meet this week, a Polish diplomat said on Tuesday.

The concept may be discussed at Friday talks between newly-installed Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Russian President Vladimir Putin, although the final agenda has yet to be confirmed, Polish diplomat Jerzy Rutkowski told Reuters.
"The land pipeline may cost about US$3 billion. So why pay US$12 billion if you can pay four times less?" said Rutkowski, the secretary for economic issues at the Polish embassy in Moscow.

The Baltic States and Poland, a major transit route for Russian gas, fear the direct seabed link from Russia to Germany would allow them to be cut off easily from Russian supplies.