VOL. XLI

No. 10

9-March-1998

FSU

Turkey Fails To Win Backing For Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline

Turkey's Foreign Minister Ismail Cem played host to the foreign ministers ofAzerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakstan and Turkmenistan during a two-day gathering in Istanbul on1-2 March designed to promote the construction of a crude oil export pipeline running fromthe Azerbaijani capital, Baku, to the Turkish Mediterranean port of Ceyhan. Although ajoint statement released at the end of the conference expressed the...