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Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - October 16, 2008
Central Asia: Agreement on regional water management pact remains elusive
(EurasiaNet) - When it comes to trying to resolve vital water-management issues in Central Asia, regional leaders seem to be stuck in mud.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - October 9, 2008
Russia on the look -out for ways to increase its Caspian basin energy position
(EurasiaNet) - Russia is pressing for the creation of a new organization, dubbed the Caspian Economic Cooperation Organization, in an apparent bid to increase its influence over the region’s vast energy resources.
CIS leaders to talk economics, financial crisis in Bishkek Oct. 10 (Kazinform)
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - October 1, 2008
The Caucasus, SCO, CSTO, energy and the new multipolarity
(GlobalResearch.ca) - The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) has conformed to the Russian view that the conflict in South Ossetia is tantamount to shaking, if not entirely changing, the global balance of power that has orbited around US supremacy since the end of the Cold War.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 30, 2008
Business confidence returning to the South Caucasus transport corridor
(Eurasia Daily Monitor) - The two-pronged corridor, running from Azerbaijan to the Georgian Black Sea coast and via Georgia to the Turkish Mediterranean coast, is now functioning at nearly the same overall capacity as it did prior to the conflict.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 22, 2008
Central Asia states fail to cooperate on water management
(CACI Analyst) - The collapsed negotiations on a regional water regime between the Ministers of Energy of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan held in Almaty on September 9-10 uncovered deep and intractable disagreements between the states sharing the Syr Darya water basin.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 11, 2008
Guler: Nabucco project will be implemented
(www.defsec.info) - Turkey’s Energy Minister Hilmi Guler called on Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to cooperate with Turkey in energy/drilling projects in the Black Sea and make joint energy investments.
Nabucco gets a boost in Baku
(EurasiaNet) - At what was called a “strategic-cooperation conference” in Baku on September 9, there was broad support for participation in the Nabucco project.
Big energy buyers court Turkmenistan
(BusinessWeek - TOL) - When Turkmenistan’s president took power at the death of the authoritarian ruler Saparmurat Niyazov nearly two years ago, he vowed to liberalize the economy and encourage outsiders to invest in the country’s vast natural gas potential.
Guler: Nabucco project will be implemented
(www.defsec.info) - Turkey’s Energy Minister Hilmi Guler called on Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan to cooperate with Turkey in energy/drilling projects in the Black Sea and make joint energy investments, on Tuesday in a Baku energy conference.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 8, 2008
Central Asia: Russia and United States intensify energy competition
(EurasiaNet) - A three-sided diplomatic scrum is intensifying in Central Asia, as US, Russian and Chinese officials are stepping up efforts to wring energy-export deals from regional leaders.
Nabucco backers remain composed
(Financial Times) - The backers of the Nabucco pipeline, an ambitious 3,300km scheme to ship gas from central Asia to Europe, remain confident the project is on track, in spite of the conflict between Russia and Georgia.
Cheney expresses US interest in Caspian region
(Oil and Gas Journal) - US Vice-President Dick Cheney met with Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and later said that the US has a “deep and abiding interest” in the Caspian region’s stability and security.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 5, 2008
EU’s Piebalgs seeks political push for Nabucco gas
(RFE/RL) - The European Union must reduce its dependence on Russian energy supplies by accelerating the planned Nabucco pipeline to bring gas from central Asia, says the EU’s energy chief.
Caspian leaders to meet over oil-rich sea status in October or November
(RIA Novosti) - The countries have so far failed to agree on how to divide the seabed.
Kazakhstan Regional News Roundup - September 4, 2008
Russia and the Shanghai cooperation: Lonely road from Bishkek to Dushanbe
(EurasiaNet) - Up through the August 2007 SCO summit in Bishkek, Putin had good reason to be pleased with the SCO, as the SCO appeared to be a useful mechanism for advancing Moscow’s priorities.
