VOL. XLIII

No. 15

10-April-2000

CASPIAN

Georgia And Azerbaijan Reach Agreement On Baku-Ceyhan Tariffs

Meetings in Tbilisi between Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze and Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliyev have produced an agreement on the allocation of tariffs for the proposed 1mn b/d Baku-Ceyhan pipeline. Speaking in Baku on 23 March upon his return from Georgia, President Aliyev acknowledged that Azerbaijan had to make concessions in order to ensure that the crude pipeline project would...