Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 23

07-June-2004

CASPIAN

Kazakhstan And China Agree To Start Building Next Phase Of Pipeline

Kazakhstan and China signed an agreement on 17 May to proceed this summer with the construction of the next phase of the Kazakh-China crude pipeline. The signing took place during an official visit to Beijing by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Phase 3 of the pipeline refers to the Atasu-Alashankou (Druzhba) section, also called the Eastern Kazakhstan Pipeline...