VOL. XLII

No 49

6-December-1999

FSU

Kazakstan And China To Pursue Crude Export Pipeline

Following a two-day visit to Beijing by Kazak PresidentNursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakstan痴 Foreign Minister Erlan Idrisov said on 25November that his country and China remain committed to the construction of a3,000-km. crude oil export pipeline across their territories. Mr. Idrisov saidthat a completed feasibility study would be available sometime in December. Thepipeline, the actual capacity and cost of which...