KIEV, May 23 - Azerbaijan agreed to supply 470,000 tons of Caspian Sea crude to fill Ukraine’s Odessa-Brody pipeline to replace the Russian oil that currently fills the pipeline, President Viktor Yushchenko said Friday.

The move is the first step for using the pipeline, which currently moves Russian oil, for supplies of Caspian oil to the European Union, a project Yushchenko has been promoting for years.