VOL. XXXIX

No. 17

22-January-1996

FSU

Moscow And Baku Sign Caspian Oil Transport Deal

Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin and Azerbaijani President Gaidar Aliyev initialed an agreement in Moscow in 18 January providing for the transportation of "early oil" from the Caspian Sea via Russian pipelines to the Black Sea oil terminal of Novorossysk. This is one of two routes decided upon last October by the Azerbaijan International Operating Company (AIOC), a western-led...