News Digest
US AGAINST KAZAKHSTAN-IRAN OIL PIPELINE PLAN: OFFICIAL
By empty (6/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A top US diplomat underlined Washington\'s opposition to a French-backed plan which, if realised, would see a pipeline built from Kazakhstan to Iran to export the massive oil reserves underneath the Caspian Sea. \"The US is firmly opposed to this pipeline, for reasons both of law and policy,\" Steven Mann, the US special envoy on Caspian basin energy issues, told reporters. \"Commercially speaking, I think there are better alternatives,\" added Mann, who was speaking on the sidelines of the annual Caspian Oil and Gas conference in Azerbaijan\'s capital, Baku.BOTAS TO FINISH TURKISH SECTION OF BTC PIPE ON TIME
By empty (6/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Turkey\'s Botas, the operator for the construction of the Turkish section of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline, plans to complete this section on time - in December 2004- January 2005, company General Director Mehmet Bilgic told journalists in Baku on Monday He said steps have been taken to make up for delays. \"At the moment any delays are not being discussed. The Turkish government has set Botas the task of completing construction on time, and we will do everything possible for this,\" he said.KAKHA BENDUKIDZE APPOINTED GEORGIAN ECONOMICS MINISTER
By empty (6/1/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Businessman Kakha Bendukidze, who lives and works in Russia, has been appointed Georgia\'s economics minister, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania said in Tbilisi on Tuesday. Bendukidze\'s appointment was coordinated with President Mikheil Saakashvili, Zhvania said. \"He is an economist on a global scale.AZERBAIJAN, IRAN AGREE ON GAS SUPPLIES
By empty (5/31/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan and Iran have reached agreement on supplies of Iranian natural gas to Nakhichevan autonomous republic, Azerbaijani Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev told journalists on Friday. \"We have reached an agreement. In place of the gas we will supply them with electricity.Visit also
Staff Publications
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
Book Svante E. Cornell, ed., "The Changing Geopolitics of Central Asia and the Caucasus" AFPC Press/Armin LEar, 2023.
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Silk Road Paper S. Frederick Starr, U.S. Policy in Central Asia through Central Asian Eyes, May 2023.