By empty (1/17/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)
China and Turkmenistan are readying an agreement to build a pipeline to transport Turkmen natural gas to China. Zhang Guobao, deputy minister of China\'s National Development and Reform Commission, is due to arrive in Ashgabat on 18 January for talks to draft the agreement, which is expected to be signed when Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov visits China in April. Niyazov told a cabinet meeting on 16 January, \"Gas will be pumped to China from the right bank of the Amudarya River.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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