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The official signing ceremony at ministerial level will be held in the coming days. Deputy Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Makis Papageorgiou noted that the completion of the Host Goverment Agreement will give the country yet another advantage in terms of the pipeline in the final selection process, adding that Greece’s cooperation with Italy and Albania makes Trans-Adriatic Pipeline a very strong competitor against Nabucco in terms of the alternative supply and energy security of the European Union. Following a meeting with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev expressed hope that the transportation of natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe would not limit Shah Deniz II’s quantities.