VOL. XXXVI

NO. 48

30-AUGUST-1993

CENTRAL ASIAN REPUBLICS

Azerbaijan Resumes Talks With Oil Companies

The eight oil companies involved in the scuttled $9bn Caspian Sea oil dealwith Azerbaijan resumed neRepublics gotiations with the Azerbaijani Governmentin Baku on 9 August where they met with a new negotiating team. The oilcompanies (British Petroleum, Unocal, Pennzoil, Amoco, Statoil, Ramco, McDermottInternational, and Turkish Petroleum) had been set to sign a contract withAzerbaijan on 2 July...