(L-R) Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, Kazakhstan's President Nursultan Nazarbayev, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrive for a group photo during the Caspian Sea Littoral States summit in Tehran on October 16, 2007. Caspian Sea states declared on Tuesday they would not let their soil be used for an attack on any of them, an apparent response to speculation the United States could resort to force in its nuclear row with Iran. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)
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Iran offers ocean to oil giant Kazakhstan
A central tenet of U.S. Middle East foreign policy has been to maintain Washingtons sanctions imposed on Iran under the 1996 Iran-Libya Sanctions Act, or ILSA, and persuade or strong-arm other nations into minimizing their trade relations with the Islamic republic.
Kazakh pipeline begins pumping oil to China
A pipeline from Kazakhstan capable of supplying China with nearly a sixth of its current annual oil imports began its first deliveries this week, the official Xinhua news agency reported. The 1,000-kilometer (620-mile) pipeline linking Atasu in the
As Kazakh oil wealth climbs, so, too, does need to diversify
Kazakhstans economy is booming on the back of oil revenues, but the expansion of new wealth also underscores a pressing need for economic diversification in the Central Asian state, analysts say.
Kazakhstan: the waking giant of Central Asia
For the ninth-biggest country on the planet, Kazakhstan has had a tough time winning respect. Kazakhstan emerged from the breakup of the Soviet Union known for little more than sheer size, a national cuisine based on horseflesh and spectacular Sovi
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Oil lifts Kazakh city above the fray
Amid bloodshed and unrest elsewhere in Central Asia, the Kazakh city of Almaty has appeared an oasis of relative prosperity. But some wonder for how long.
Central Asians demand pullout of Western military bases
The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a six-nation security bloc, called for a deadline to be set on the pullout of Western bases from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan and slammed outside interference in their affairs at a summit in
BTC pipeline politics
The ceremony of commissioning the Azerbaijani section of the new Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline again drew the attention of analysts to the project.
Oil pipeline launched, breaks Russia grip on Caspian
A major new US-backed pipeline to bring oil directly from the Caspian Sea to Western markets and break Russias long-time grip on the regions vast energy resources was formally launched on Wednesday in a ceremony attended by presidents and dignita
