VOL. XL

No. 43

27-October-1997

IRAN

Iran-Kazak Oil Swap Temporarily Suspended

Russia's Interfax news agency reported in a dispatch from the Kazakstan capital,Almaty, on 22 October that the oil swap arrangement begun earlier this year between Iranand Kazakstan has been temporarily suspended. The agency quoted the new President ofKazakoil, Mr. Baltabek Kuandykov, as saying that a group of Kazak experts would travel toTehran on 23 October for talks with the Iranians. The problem has been the...