VOL. XLIII

No. 26

26-June-2000

TURKEY

Turkey Ratifies Baku-Ceyhan Agreements

The Turkish parliament on 22 June ratified all agreements relating to the proposed 1,700km Baku-Ceyhan crude pipeline, including an intergovernmental agreement between Turkey, Azerbaijan and Georgia allowing the pipeline to run through their respective territories, the November 1999 Istanbul declaration which was signed by the three countries plus the US and Kazakstan, a protocol concerning talks between the three...