By empty (9/6/2001 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Nursultan Nazarbaev attended a ceremony in the port of Aqtau on 6 September to mark the beginning of ferry services linking Kazakhstan with the ports of Olia (Russia), Baku (Azerbaijan), and Nowshahr (Iran). He stressed the importance of those transport links for Kazakhstan's role as a transit country. The new ferry lines are part of the TRACECA transport network intended to link Central Asia and Europe via the Caucasus.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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