KIEV, June 18 - Ukraine and Azerbaijan on Monday praised multilateral efforts made over the past month aimed at establishing an oil pipeline route for shipments of Caspian Sea oil to markets in Europe.

President Viktor Yushchenko met his Azeri counterpart Ilkham Aliyev in Baku to discuss the project, which includes Odessa-Brody oil pipeline that crosses Ukraine from the Black Sea to the border with Poland.