Azeri oil boss says Baku-Ceyhan pipeline construction on schedule.

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports)

[Presenter] The construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline will finish on schedule. The fact that international financial organizations have postponed financing the pipeline construction till September will not affect this, the first vice-president of the State Oil Company [of Azerbaijan, SOCAR], Ilham Aliyev, has said.

[Reporter over video of building site, Ilham Aliyev] The construction of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan main oil export pipeline is proceeding on schedule, and the BTC company will soon start building work.

[Ilham Aliyev] They have assured me that the pipe-laying will start in April. …