Eric Watkins
Senior Correspondent
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15 -- Azerbaijan will continue to use Russia's Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline even as the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline is being commissioned, according to Natiq Aliyev, president of the State Oil Co. of Azerbaijan.
Aliyev told Azerbaijan's state news agency, MPA, on Aug. 15 that the Baku-Novorossiysk pipeline is being used now and will remain important even after the BTC pipeline is commissioned.
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