VOL. XL

No. 25

23-June-1997

IRAQ

Turkey And Ukraine Agree To Construct A Pipeline To Carry Iraqi Oil

Turkey and Ukraine signed an agreement on 18 June to build a 564-km.long pipeline from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea through Turkey to meet some ofUkraine's oil needs. The pipeline system is planned specifically to by-pass theDardanelles and the Bosphorus by transporting Iraqi oil reaching the Turkish Mediterraneancoast at Ceyhan to the Ukraine. The accord was signed in Ankara by Turkish...