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IRAN SHARES RUSSIA\'S CONCERN ABOUT CASPIAN PIPELINES
By empty (4/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran shares Russia\'s concern about the possible construction of pipelines on the Caspian seabed, Iranian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Murtazo Saffori told Interfax. \"Iran shares Russia\'s opinion about the possible construction of pipelines on the Caspian seabed, which Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny has made public,\" he said. \"The catastrophic consequences of earthquakes in the sea is the main reason why Russia objects to laying trans-Caspian trunk pipelines,\" Kalyuzhny said at an international conference on the politics, economy and business of the Caspian Sea in Astana on Wednesday.IRAN, KAZAKHSTAN TO SET JOINT TRANSPORT COMPANY
By empty (4/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iran plans to set up a joint transport company with Kazakhstan to ship oil through the Caspian from the Kazakh port of Aktau to the Iranian ports of Neka and Amirabad, Iranian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Murzato Saffori told Interfax. The diplomat said that the oil transport company Naftiran Intertrade Company would participate in this project from the Iranian side. Iran assumes that the Kazakh participant in the venture will be KazMunaiGaz, Saffori said.IRANIAN OIL COMPANIES TO TAKE PART IN KAZAKH TENDERS
By empty (4/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Iranian oil companies will take part in tenders for the development of new oil blocs in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea. \"Both state and private oil companies from Iran will apply for Kazakhstan\'s tenders for the development of blocs in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea,\" Iranian Ambassador to Kazakhstan Murtazo Saffori told Interfax. He said the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and its subsidiaries, as well as the private companies Petrokhazar and Petropars would take part in the tenders.DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON LEGAL STATUS OF CASPIAN REGION.
By empty (4/28/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The legal status of the Caspian Region should be elaborated on with regard to the existing agreements between the former USSR and Iran of 1921 and 1940, which have successfully showed their prudence in the past, Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhny, who is also Russia\'s presidential representative on the Caspian problem, declared in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana, speaking at the ceremony of the opening of the first international forum on the Caspian region. According to him, another foundation for the legal status is the vested practices of business activities in the region. As for the meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian region, which took place on April 6, Kalyuzhny stressed that the parties have advanced in their negotiations on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, but there were some disagreements.Visit also
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