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Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 2, 2008
Central Asia watches warily
(IHT) - Central Asian leaders are worried that they might eventually find themselves having to choose sides between Russia and the West - a choice all of them have tried hard to avoid.
Bulgaria pushes Nabucco pipeline
(BusinessWeek) - The Russia-Georgia conflict adds new impetus to an alternative route for Caspian gas that connects Turkey to Austria via Bulgaria.
China, Turkmenistan agree to boost planned gas sales
(Reuters) - Turkmenistan will sell 40 billion cubic metres (bcm) of natural gas a year to China through a planned pipeline instead of the previously agreed 30 bcm.
Central Asian leaders balk at opening Pandora’s box of separatism
(RFE/RL) - The summit’s final resolution lauded “Russia’s efforts to normalize the situation in South Caucasus,” but was notably silent on the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
In the eye of the storm
(Transitions Online) - The Caucasus region was once seen as a transit hub for Caspian and Central Asian fuel supplies. That may change.
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