TURKMENISTAN CONFIRMS EXPORT SHIFT AWAY FROM RUSSIA
By Robert M. Cutler (9/1/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
In mid-August, BP Azerbaijan announced that oil from Turkmenistan is now entering the BTC in Azerbaijan and will constitute between four and five percent of its present throughput of 800,000 barrels per day (bpd), which is being upgraded to 1.2 million bpd with a view towards eventual inclusion of oil from Kazakhstan’s offshore Tengiz field.
AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN SIGN TRADE AND TRANSIT AGREEMENT
By Gulshan Sachdeva (9/1/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kabul and Islamabad recently signed the Afghanistan Pakistan Trade and Transit Agreement. Under the agreement, Afghan trucks are allowed to carry Afghan transit export cargo to Pakistani ports and also to the Indian border.
FAILED COUP RAISES ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ABOUT STABILITY IN KYRGYZSTAN
By Anvar Rahmetov (8/19/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Anti-government protests on August 5, 2010 in the capital of Kyrgyzstan ended with the riot police dispersing crowds of demonstrators and arresting the organizer, Urmat Baryktabasov, on charges of coup attempt and illegal possession of weapons. Baryktabasov gained notoriety as a result of his alleged first attempt at seizure of power in June 2005, weeks following the Tulip Revolution.
THE EU STRATEGY FOR CENTRAL ASIA AND THE KYRGYZ CRISIS
By Sébastien Peyrouse (8/19/2010 issue of the CACI Analyst)
During the crisis in Kyrgyzstan in June 2010, the European Union published a Joint Progress Report by the Council and the European Commission to the European Council on the implementation of the EU Strategy for Central Asia. This took place three years after the launching of the first strategy, initiated by the German presidency in 2007.
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