〈Caspian Oil in International Relations〉Telman Sattarov

1. oil zone the Caspy
1. It is accepted to include actually nearCaspian five states in it - Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. Except for that “nearby – Caspian” is the countries of sub regions of Northern Caucasus, Transcaucasia and extensive space of the Central Asia. Besides a number of experts rank as the “Caspian” republics Republic Uzbekistan and Georgia, and Ankara in 1997 has proclaimed the Eurasian state Turkey the “near-Caspian” state
2. important value in world politics both the international relations that factor, that Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Georgia - were former republics of the collapsed powerful state - the USSR
3. the stocks of hydro carbonic raw material revealed and predicted here - some oil, gas of a condensate and natural gas
4. it is impossible to bypass and that important factor, that an arrangement of Caspian sea in particular, and Caucasus and extensive space of the central Asia as a whole between the basic existing and potential commodity markets of oil and mineral oil - to the Europe Asia and also between the basic suppliers of power resources - the Near and average East Northern Africa, Russia in a present geopolitical situation has such great value
2. Turkey－This Eurasian country has defined the role as the states, the bridge between Asia and the Europe, as the representative of the western partners in the Central Asia
   On Caspian sea Turkey cautiously and deter able, that is connected with interest in maintenance of good relations with the Russian Federation, economic cooperation with which develops fast rates:
1. strengthening foreign policy positions due to the states of Caucasus and the Central Asia
2. aspiration to strengthening dependence of the West from policy of Turkey in both subs regions
3. maintenance of deliveries of power resources on a home market
4. the control over expert streams of the Caspian hydrocarbons on the world market and as consequence realization of the first defining problem
3. At the same time such active actions of many countries and regions of the world and especially the USA and China in the wide plan for Caucasus and in the Central Asia should Cause corresponding concern of the Russian Federation which is one of key players of the Caspian region. It takes firm positions here that are caused by following factors:
1. Historical and cultural potential
2. Transit potential
   The Russian Federation is on a joint of the Europe and Asia and has an output to the seas that provides to it the important strategic position as the transit state
3. Military potential
4. Hydro carbonic riches

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