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Regional News Roundup - June 16, 2008

By SRI ⋅ June 16, 2008 ⋅  Email This Post ⋅  Print This Post ⋅ Post a comment

Caspian treasure

(TOL) - Excerpt of testimony delivered 12 June before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee presented by Zeyno Baran, director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute, a Washington-based public policy institute.

Tethys licensed to develop 5 gas fields in Tajikistan

(Interfax/redOrbit) - Canadian-American company Tethys Petroleum Ltd has received license to work in 56 areas in Tajikistan that are believed to possibly contain natural gas and to develop five of them that are confirmed gas fields.

Central Asia: Age-old water problem brings tensions to a boil

In energy-rich Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have long found themselves the odd men out. They possess little if any of the massive natural resources that are making Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan rich. But tiny Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan do have one thing the others don’t: water.

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