News Digest
AZERBAIJAN - ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS ACCUSE BP OF UNETHICAL CONDUCT OVER CASPIAN PIPELINE
By empty (4/30/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Environmental groups meeting in Paris (France) yesterday accused British oil group BP and other oil majors of violating ethics in their bid to build an oil pipeline that will link the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean (see FSU Regional: 30 September 2002: Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline- Instrument for Stability or Geopolitical Nightmare?). Apart from environmental protests, the Baku-Tbilisi Ceyhan pipeline project is in any case under a cloud because of an expected drop in oil prices and the questionable financial viability of the project, without sufficient levels of input of Kazakh oil. The environmental groups said the BP-led consortium had \'exerted undue influence\' to have Azerbaijan\'s regulations changed in its favor and had \'sought or accepted\' exemptions on environmental, social, labor and fiscal laws.AFGHANISTAN \'MOVES TO STABILITY\'
By empty (5/1/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has said major combat operations in Afghanistan are at an end. He said the country had moved into a period of stabilisation and reconstruction. Mr Rumsfeld was speaking in Kabul after talks with President Hamid Karzai.UZBEKISTAN ASKED TO SUPPORT NATO
By empty (5/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
NATO Secretary-General Lord George Robertson has asked Uzbek President Islam Karimov to provide assistance to NATO when that organization takes over command of coalition forces in Afghanistan, according to presidential foreign-affairs adviser Abdulaziz Komilov. Komilov said that Uzbekistan will provide full support in logistics, medical assistance, and humanitarian operations, using the U.S.SIX TURKISH CITIZENS TO FACE TRIAL FOR ALLEGED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON TURKMEN PRESIDENT
By empty (5/2/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Six Turkish citizens who were arrested in Turkmenistan for alleged involvement in the purported assassination attempt against Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov in November and who were repatriated on 31 March, are being put on trial in Turkey, according to the Turkish Anatolia news agency. The trial reportedly began on 29 April after Prosecutor Ali Cengiz Hacioglu of the Istanbul State Security Court completed an investigation of the six. Hacioglu has reportedly requested life sentences for the six on charges of having attempted to assassinate the head of a foreign state.Visit also
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