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      <title>BASF agrees to enter Russia-led South Stream: Putin</title>
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      <description>&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/BASF_400.jpg" width="400" height="289" /&gt;MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said that German chemical giant BASF had agreed to enter the Russian-led South Stream gas pipeline project and that the German leadership supported the project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;"I am very pleased that you find it suitable to enter South Stream," Putin said moments before chief executives of Russia's Gazprom and Germany's BASF signed a preliminary agreement paving the way for Wintershall, the hydrocarbon subsidiary of Germany's chemical giant, to enter the Russian-led project. Putin added that he was "especially pleased" that German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported the German firm's decision to become part of the project.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoPlainText"&gt;&lt;Center /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2011&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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      <content:encoded xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><![CDATA[<p class="MsoPlainText"><img style="margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; float: left;" src="https://i.brecorder.com/images/stories/pics2011/mar/BASF_400.jpg" width="400" height="289" />MOSCOW: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Monday said that German chemical giant BASF had agreed to enter the Russian-led South Stream gas pipeline project and that the German leadership supported the project.</p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">"I am very pleased that you find it suitable to enter South Stream," Putin said moments before chief executives of Russia's Gazprom and Germany's BASF signed a preliminary agreement paving the way for Wintershall, the hydrocarbon subsidiary of Germany's chemical giant, to enter the Russian-led project. Putin added that he was "especially pleased" that German Chancellor Angela Merkel supported the German firm's decision to become part of the project.</p>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 21:53:02 +0500</pubDate>
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