Russia's Gazprom says Japan suggests gas pipeline to Tokyo - Interfax | Energy & Oil | Reuters

MOSCOW Nov 10 (Reuters) - Alexei Miller, chief executiveofficer of Russia's top natural gas producer, Gazprom,was quoted as saying on Monday that the company was studying asuggestion from Japan to build an undersea gas pipeline toTokyo.

Interfax news agency quoted Miller as speaking in Beijing onthe sidelines of an Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

The construction of a gas pipeline between the twocountries, which has been mooted for decades, could face severalobstacles, including a dispute over islands taken by Russianforces at the end of World War Two that has prevented Moscow andTokyo from signing a formal peace treaty. (Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin, editing by Elizabeth Piper)

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