By empty (4/11/2003 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The Azerbaijani government issued a directive on 10 April to provide financial compensation to individuals living on the route of the proposed Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. The compensation is to be issued through local branches of the International Bank of Azerbaijan and will affect more than 4,300 landowners in 13 districts of Azerbaijan and 131 villages. Roughly 150 of the landowners are legal entities, including municipalities, state farms, and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources.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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