Field Reports
GAS SCANDAL BETWEEN AZERBAIJAN AND TURKMENISTAN
By By Gulnara Ismailova, a freelance journalist based in Baku, Azerbaijan (10/24/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Azerbaijan’s State oil company’s president recently declared that the much-debated Trans-Caspian pipeline will not be built. This puts another, perhaps final, nail in the coffin of this project that has been marred by the deteriorating relations between Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan
At the OPEC general secretariat in Vienna, Natig Aliev (head of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, SOCAR) released a statement on October 9 announcing that the planned Trans-Caspian gas pipeline project that was to supply Turkmenistan’s gas to Turkey via the territories of Azerbaijan and Georgia will not be realized. The Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, was scheduled to be laid from Turkmenistan to Turkey via the bottom of the Caspian Sea, and the territories of Azerbaijan and Georgia, to a length of 1700 Km.
FOREIGN TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KAZAKHSTAN
By By Andrei Emelin (10/24/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The sovereignty of Kazakhstan more than 10 years ago carried with it the problem of drawing up of plans for foreign economic relations, including the foreign trade and specifically exports to external markets. For this purpose, a special state body on the realization of foreign trade was created.
In 1988, the Foreign Trade Association-KazakhImport was formed, and after several transformations, in 1994 it received the name 'Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Kazakhstan'.
AN AFGHAN WOMAN’S STORY IN EXILE
By By Jennifer Balfour (10/24/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A run-down seaside resort on the dogleg of Britain is haven to a relentless trickle of Afghans fleeing the trauma and tragedy of their homeland. Since September 11th, authorities have tried to turn them back fearing an influx of Taliban freedom fighters disguised as asylum seekers. But still they come, widows and orphans mostly, each with their own nightmare behind them.
AFGHAN REFUGEES: ANOTHER HEADACHE FOR KYRGYSTAN?
By Gulzina Karim kyzy (11/7/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
A coordinating meeting was held on 11 October in Bishkek. Kyrgyz government officials, representatives of UN agencies and of several donor organizations gathered in this meeting to discuss the current situation in Kyrgyzstan, as well as the international situation that has taken a dramatic shift after the terrorist attacks on September 11. Participants focused on a potential increase in the flow of Afghan refugees into Kyrgyzstan, and the measures to be taken to prepare for this possibility.
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