Yes. The oil under Caspian and in rest of Central Asia is one cause that
desist these newly liberated countries to enjoy their liberty really. Not
only through the Caspian the possibility of piping through Afghanistan and
then Pakistan is also impeded by different actors. Taliban and the Northern
Alliance is not helped to finish the useless fratricidal war in the country,
which for the length of war is soon going to hit the Guiness Book of
Records. If they don't stop soon it will be for one quarter of a century.
Iran and also India are the impedimets.Lately President Putin of Russia
during his visit to India chalked out a working group with India to look
into the Afghan issue. As if Brezhnev and others was not enough.
Tariq
From: Mark Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
from
Policy Pete: Caspian manoeuvres
Spiriting It Out of the Formerly Evil Empire
No one can fault the US's Caspian policy for lack of boldness. Put
succinctly, that policy is to take the spoils of the cold war -- the
oil in the former components of the Soviet Union that are now broke
> but independent -- and get it to market without having it transit
> Russia. q.v. Leaving aside the chutzpah, the trouble with the policy
> has been that progress has been painfully slow or nonexistent.
> Pipelines that should have been well on their way to completion aren't
> even financed yet. No matter. Architects of the strategy, such as US
> ambassador for Caspian energy policy John Wolf, have now decided how
> to move the biggest prize of all, the at least two mighty pools of oil
> found along the northern border of the Caspian in Kazakhstan. They'll
> just tack on an underwater pipeline across the Caspian and take it to
> Ceyhan,Turkey from Baku in Azerbaijan. It's certainly thinking big.
> But does it make sense? Kazakhstan was already well integrated into
> the Russian pipeline system. Iran, the other state bordering the
> Caspian, also offers pipeline opportunities to the Persian Gulf. By
> ignoring/slighting Russia and Iran, the US is forced to accept
> considerably more delay in getting the oil to market, angering two
> important potential allies, and probably undercutting efforts to
> stabilize a particularly volatile region of the world. Perhaps the
> new administration will see fit to revisit this one.
http://qv3.com/PolicyPete/policypete.htm
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