UZBEKISTAN SIGNS AGREEMENTS WITH UNOCAL, DELTA OIL.

The management of Uzbekneftgaz and senior executives of the U.S. company UNOCAL and Saudi Arabia’s Delta Oil signed in Tashkent yesterday agreements of intent to prospect and develop oil and gas deposits in Uzbekistan and to build export pipelines. President Islam Karimov told the visiting executives that Uzbekistan pins great hopes on the construction of new energy supply and transport systems in Central Asia. (Western agencies, May 6)

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