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From: Ina Iankulova (iiankulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 10:32:38 EST
CASPIAN WORKING GROUP MEETS IN AZERBAIJAN
The eighth session of the working group for determining the legal status of the Caspian Sea opened in Baku on 26 February, Interfax and Turan reported. Addressing the session, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Viktor Kalyuzhnyi made clear Russia's rejection of last week's announcement by Kazakh Defense Minister Colonel General Mukhtar Altynbaev that Kazakhstan intends to create a Caspian naval flotilla. But Kazakh Deputy Defense Minister Kairat Abuseitov told Interfax that Kazakhstan needs such a naval force to counter possible terrorist threats. Kalyuzhnyi also reaffirmed Russia's opposition on ecological grounds to laying pipelines across the Caspian Sea bed (see "RFE/RL Newsline," 10 November 2000). LF
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