VOL. XLV

No 18

6-May-2002

CASPIAN

SecurityProtocol Planned For East-West Energy Corridor

The presidents ofTurkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan signed a security accord designed to protect theregions energy sources during a meeting at Turkeys Black Sea port of Trabzon on 30 April and announced that they would soon signa protocol dealing with the security of the East-West energy corridor,particularly the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) crudepipeline and the South Caucasus Pipeline system, which will carry...