News Digest
DRAWN-OUT IRAQ WAR COULD DELAY CASPIAN PIPE CONSTRUCTION
By empty (3/26/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A drawn-out war in Iraq could delay the construction of a BP Plc-led oil pipeline set to run from Baku to the Turkish port of Ceyhan, a top Azerbaijani oil official said Tuesday. \"We\'re worried that a long war could hold up deliveries of pipes necessary for construction of Baku-Ceyhan,\" Natig Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan state oil company Socar, told reporters. Pipes to be used for construction on Turkish territory are delivered through the Turkish port of Iskenderun, which may be used to launch forces against Iraq, Aliyev said.ARMENIA PREPARES TO EVACUATE CO-ETHNICS FROM IRAQ
By empty (3/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Armenian Foreign Ministry is making arrangements, including issuing visas, to enable members of Iraq\'s Armenian community to travel to Armenia in the event of hostilities in Iraq, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said on National Television the previous evening. The Armenian diaspora in Iraq is estimated to number several tens of thousands. Oskanian said the families of Armenian diplomats in Baghdad have already been evacuated.KAZAKHSTAN SEIZES AZERBAIJANI FISHING VESSELS
By empty (3/17/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Kazakh border guards have seized three Azerbaijani boats for allegedly poaching in Kazakhstan\'s Caspian Sea territorial waters. A Border Service press release said that the Azerbaijani vessels were found to be in possession of more than 1 1/2 tons of sturgeon. According to the report, the Azerbaijanis were escorted to Aktau, the administrative center of the western Kazakhstan Mangystau Oblast, where the Kazakh Customs Control Agency and the regional prosecutor\'s office opened an investigation.TURKEY NAMES ERDOGAN ITS PRIME MINISTER
By empty (3/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The charismatic leader of Turkey\'s governing party was named prime minister Tuesday, a step that probably boosts chances the United States will get permission to deploy troops in the country along Iraq \'s northern border. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who favors the deployment, hinted that he will reshuffle the Cabinet, but gave no indication if he would purge officials who opposed letting in the troops, as analysts have suggested he might do. Erdogan is extremely popular in Turkey and is likely be one of the few leaders with enough clout to unite his party and gain public support for allowing in the U.Visit also
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Book S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Strong and Unique: Three Decades of U.S.-Kazakhstan Partnership, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, December 2021.
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