USA STRONGLY BACKS NON-RUSSIA OIL AND GAS PIPELINE LINKS TO EUROPE
May 1st, 2009
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE USA has given strong diplomatic backing to the construction of oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian to Europe that bypass Russia. Visiting Turkey in April, US President Barack Obama told the Turkish parliament that Washington would "support [Turkey's] central role as an east-west corridor for oil and natural gas." His comments were followed by meetings between Obama's secretary of state Hillary Clinton and the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia, who the US is pushing to make peace over the Nagorno-Karabakh issue. Azeri ...
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