1. "Caspian Oil Reaches Europe" - importante documentazione su corridoi
e infrastrutture per il trasporto del greggio attraverso i Balcani, dal
sito www.seeurope.com

2. "Via al petrolio del Caspio - La Russia ingannata e tagliata fuori
anche dal gasdotto" (M. Dinucci)

3. (ROADS) CORRIDOR 10 A PRIORITY SAYS SERBIAN PREMIER

4. "HELLENIC PETROLEUM" HA COMPRATO LA "JUGOPETROL" MONTENEGRINA

5. L'or noir de la Caspienne passera-t-il par l'Albanie? (F. Morava du
Klan)

6. ROMANIA: PROGRESS IN THE PIPELINE.
Bucharest, Belgrade and Zagreb sign up to the construction of an oil
pipeline linking the Black Sea to Western Europe. (M. Chiriac, IWPR)

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http://www.seeurope.net/en/Category.php?CatID=11&sid=7744aa4dabd4e0c2a5254ead86519775

Caspian Oil Reaches Europe

Contents:

October 18, 2002
Caspian Integration Business Club Is Being Founded

October 7, 2002
Future Pipeline Projects

September 27, 2002
Conclusion Of Study For Trans-Balkan Oil Pipeline

September 25, 2002
Romania Might Participate In Building An Oil Terminal In
Georgia

September 24, 2002
Russia And Azerbaijan Sign Bilateral Deal On Caspian Sea

September 23, 2002
Putin And Aliev To Discuss The Use Of The Caspian Sea's
Energy Resources

September 20, 2002
Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Guarantees Peace, Security And
Stability In The Region

September 19, 2002
Construction Of Oil Pipeline Linking Skopje And Southern
Serbia

September 18, 2002
New Pipeline Set To Open Up Caspian Oil Fields To The
West

September 17, 2002
New Projects Of TCO Help Increase Oil Production

...and many more documents!

www.seeurope.net

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Via al petrolio del Caspio

La Russia ingannata e tagliata fuori anche dal
gasdotto
MANLIO DINUCCI
Il Manifesto 25/09/02

Sono stati inaugurati il 18 settembre i lavori di
costruzione dell'oleodotto che, partendo
dall'Azerbaigian e attraversando Georgia e Turchia,
trasporterà il petrolio del Caspio per 1.760 km fino
al porto turco di Ceyhan sul Mediterraneo. Alla
cerimonia, svoltasi al terminale azero di Sangachal
presso Baku, i presidenti dei tre paesi (Alivev,
Shevardnadze e Sezer) hanno gettato con le pale un po'
di terra nella trincea in cui era stata collocata una
sezione simbolica della tubatura. A imbracciare la
pala c'era però anche una quarta persona, la più
importante: il segretario Usa all'energia Spencer
Abraham, latore di una lettera del presidente Bush che
definisce il progetto «una componente essenziale del
corridoio energetico Est-Ovest». Non precisa il
presidente che, dal suo «Est», è esclusa la Russia.
L'oleodotto Baku-Ceyhan - così come quello che dal
1999 collega Baku al porto georgiano di Supsa sul Mar
Nero - segue un tracciato che aggira a sud la Russia,
sottraendole il controllo sull'esportazione della
maggior parte del petrolio del Caspio. Il greggio che
attraverso questo oleodotto sarà pompato dal Caspio al
Mediterraneo, nella misura di 375mila barili al giorno
nel 2005 e di un milione nel 2007, sarà controllato
soprattuttto dalla Bp che, dopo la fusione con la
Amoco nel 1998, è divenuta anglo-statunitense. La Bp -
terza compagnia petrolifera del mondo dopo la
ExxonMobil (Usa) e l'anglo-olandese Royal Dutch/Shell
- è a capo (con il 35%) del consorzio che realizzerà
l'oleodotto Baku-Ceyhan, il cui costo è stimato in 3
miliardi di dollari. Ne fanno parte altre due
compagnie statunitensi, Unocal e Amerada Hess, insieme
all'azera Socar, la norvegese Statoil, la turca Tpao,
l'italiana Eni, la francese TotalFinaElf e le
giapponesi Itochu e Impex.

Il progetto che il repubblicano Bush tiene a battesimo
è stato concepito dal democratico Clinton che, al
vertice dell'Ocse del 1999 a Istanbul, annunciò lo
«storico accordo» per la realizzazione dell'oleodotto,
subito sostenuto dal governo Usa attraverso il Caspian
Finance Center, aperto ad Ankara con il compito di
finanziare questo e altri progetti nella regione del
Caspio. Ma il sostegno Usa non è limitato a questo.
Nella «guerra degli oleodotti», che si svolge per il
controllo delle riserve petrolifere del Caspio e dei
relativi «corridoi», ci si serve di tutti gli
strumenti: economici, politici e anche militari.

Con la guerra in Afghanistan, gli Stati uniti,
affiancati dal fedele socio britannico, hanno
sottratto all'influenza di Mosca quasi tutta l'Asia
centrale, un tempo sovietica. Hanno potuto così
rafforzare la propria influenza anche nella regione
del Caspio e, allo stesso tempo, riavviare il progetto
del gasdotto che, attraverso l'Afghanistan,
trasporterà il gas naturale dal Turkmenistan fino in
Pakistan. Anche questo progetto, il cui studio di
fattibilità è stato presentato il 16 settembre alla
Banca per lo sviluppo asiatico, sarà controllato da un
consorzio a guida statunitense: vi svolge un ruolo
determinante la Unocal, presente anche nel progetto
dell'oleodotto Baku-Ceyhan. E non è finita. Ora è in
gioco una posta altrettanto preziosa: il petrolio
iracheno che, una volta occupato militarmente il
paese, verrebbe anch'esso controllato da un consorzio
a guida Usa.

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CORRIDOR 10 A PRIORITY SAYS SERBIAN PREMIER

BELGRADE, Oct 1 (Beta) - Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic
said on Oct. 1 that the construction of Corridor 10 passing
through Serbia to Greece was a priority.
In a meeting with World Road Organization chairman Wim
Westerhughes and the European Conference of Traffic Ministers
official Alan Rydery, Djindjic said that the realization of
this project will help Serbia reach the traffic standards of
developed European countries and will positively affect the
economy, the Serbian cabinet has announced.
Serbian Traffic Minister Marija Raseta Vukosavljevic and Road
Directorate director Tihomir Timotijevic also attended the meeting,
at which it was announced that Serbia will apply for membership
in the World Road Organization's regional center for southeastern
Europe.

=== 4 ===

HELLENIC PETROLEUM COMPRA LA JUGOPETROL MONTENEGRINA
L'ambasciatore USA a Belgrado si complimenta...

Montgomery says Jugopetrol's sales gives positive signal to other
investors

PODGORICA, Oct 11 (Tanjug) - US Ambassador in Belgrade William
Montgomery has said that the sales of the majority package of
shares of Kotor's Jugopetrol has been carried out in a transparent
and correct way and that it will send a positive message to
foreign investors.
Hellenic Petroleum on Thursday bought the majority package of
Jugopetrol's shares for 65 million euros.
Montgomery told the Podgorica daily Vijesti that according to all
reports he had received, he believed that the privatization of
Jugopetrol had been completely transparent and correct and that all
participants in the tender had a complete insight into the process.
Montenegrin opposition parties opposed the Montenegrin government's
way of privatizing Jugopetrol of Kotor.

=== 5 ===

L'or noir de la Caspienne passera-t-il par l'Albanie?

di Fabian Morava du Klan
Traduit par Mandi Gueguen. Mis en forme par Amaël Cattaruzza.

Le Courrier des Balkans, jeudi 22 août 2002

http://www.terredescale.net/article.php3?id_article=178

Le projet américain de construire un oléoduc reliant Burgas en
Bulgarie à Vlora en Albanie pourrait changer la donne géopolitique de
la région. S'il se concrétisait, il serait un atout autant pour les
Etats-Unis, qui verraient s'accroître leur indépendance énergétique
face aux pays de l'OPEC, que pour cette région balkanique qui
prendrait une plus grande importance économique et stratégique sur la
scène internationale.
Des pétroliers américains devraient jeter l'ancre dans le port de
Vlora. Ce projet s'intègre en tous cas dans les perspectives
américaines de développements économiques et stratégiques de la
région. Il ne devrait toutefois pas être sans conséquence pour
l'Albanie.
Le jour où de grands pétroliers américains de 300 000 tonnes jetteront
l'ancre dans le port de Vlora n'est peut-être pas si loin. Ainsi, dans
les années à venir, ils traverseraient régulièrement la Méditerranée,
qui deviendrait de facto l'une des principales routes pétrolières
américaines. Chaque jour, 770 000 barils de pétrole seraient remplis
dans le port de Vlora. Ce pétrole en provenance de la mer Caspienne
s'acheminerait de Burgas (Bulgarie) à Vlora (Albanie) dans un oléoduc
de près de 900 km de long. Le contrat passé avec la Corporation du
pétrole AMBO (Abanian, Macedonian and Bulgarian Oil) prévoit la
construction de cet oléoduc d'une valeur d'1.3 milliard de dollars.
Trois Etats seraient donc concernés par cette nouvelle route
pétrolière : l'Albanie, la Macédoine et la Bulgarie.
Les fondateurs d'AMBO sont tous des géants du pétrole : "Chevron",
"Texaco", "Exxon Mobil", "British Petroleum", "Agip" et "Total Fina
Elf". Ils devraient investir 450 millions de dollars et le reste du
financement serait assuré par des crédits contractés auprès d'EBRD,
MIGA, IFC, OPIK et EKSIM. Le plan américain paraît donc clair. Il
s'inscrit dans une dynamique plus large qui vise pour les Etats-Unis à
s'assurer un accès direct au pétrole brut sans plus dépendre du bon
vouloir des pays arabes de l'OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries).
Mais pourquoi les Etats-Unis ont-ils besoin d'une telle stratégie ? La
réponse est simple. Dans leur projet d'accéder à l'indépendance
énergétique, les Etats-Unis mettent la priorité sur les ressources
pétrolières et minières de la région Caspienne (principalement
Ouzbékistan, Kazakhstan et Kirghizistan). Actuellement, celle-ci ne
fournit que 14% du total de pétrole brut mondial. Or, cette quantité
pourrait au moins être doublée grâce à une technologie plus avancée.
Si les Etats-Unis réussissent à acheminer ce pétrole jusqu'à leur
territoire par le seul intermédiaire des concessions de ces quelques
républiques ex-soviétiques, ils pourraient devenir une puissance
totalement autonome en matière d'énergie.
Les Américains tireraient de ce projet de gros bénéfices. D'abord, ils
pourraient réduire leur déficit commercial annuel de 108 milliards de
dollars, conséquence directe de l'augmentation des prix du pétrole sur
le marché mondial. Ensuite, ils diminueraient le coût de toutes leur
productions industrielles nationales, dont l'achat du pétrole
constitue une part considérable. Et enfin, ils affaibliraient la
position de l'OPEC, qui domine actuellement l'économie internationale
du pétrole brut.
Mais pourquoi le projet américain tente-t-il de promouvoir l'axe
Burgas-Vlora pour le transit du pétrole de la mer Caspienne, alors que
dans le même temps, les pays de l'Union Européenne investissent dans
l'itinéraire Constance (Roumanie)-Trieste en participant au
financement de deux pétroliers (dont un pétrolier
russo-bulgaro-grecque actuellement en construction à Alexandrie)?

Il y a plusieurs raisons à cela :
En premier lieu, les Etats-Unis veulent éviter le détroit de Bosphore,
qui ne peut être traversé que par des pétroliers dont le poids
n'excède pas 150 000 tonnes (et non par ceux de 300 000 tonnes qu'ils
utilisent). Ensuite, ils considèrent que le risque d'actions
terroristes reste non négligeable, car si les ponts construits sur le
détroit, fierté d'Istanbul, venaient à être détruits, il n'y aurait
plus aucun passage possible autant pour les pétroliers que pour les
sous-marins qui les escortent.
Enfin, la dernière raison, mais non la moindre, est le coût
relativement bas que représente la construction d'un oléoduc qui
traverserait les Etats balkaniques membres de la Corporation AMBO. Le
chemin de fer qui traverse la Bulgarie et la Macédoine est déjà prêt.
Il ne nécessite pas de frais supplémentaires pour son électrification
ou pour les transports de matériaux et d'individus. De son côté, la
partie albanaise considérée comme moins facilement aménageable est
très petite et les tarifs qui y sont en vigueur sont très faibles.
Avec le port de Vlora, l'Albanie offre de plus un avantage important :
ce port est le seul à être suffisamment profond pour accueillir les
gros porteurs américains, contrairement à ceux de Durrës ou du
Monténégro.
Toutefois, l'Albanie pourrait, elle aussi, tirer partie de cet oléoduc
qui pourrait être inauguré entre 2005 et 2010. Premièrement, le
pétrole arriverait directement des pays de la Caspienne à Tirana. Son
coût serait donc très bas, ce qui serait un atout pour l'économie
locale. Deuxièmement, l'Albanie obtiendrait probablement des
compensations pour avoir permis le transit du pétrole sur son
territoire. Enfin, cela ne ferait qu'accroître les intérêts américains
dans la région comme cela se vérifie déjà dans les républiques d'Asie
centrale. Dans ces pays de la mer Caspienne, les Etats Unis ont établi
troupes et bases militaires pour maintenir la paix et ne pas entraver
les nouvelles routes du pétrole. De telles démarches préventives
seraient une aubaine pour l'Albanie et les pays membres de l'AMBO.
Elles permettraient à cette région d'amplifier son importance
stratégique sur la scène internationale. La présence de l'OTAN et
d'autres structures de défense et de prévention serait plus marquée ce
qui minimiserait l'éventualité de nouveaux conflits. Ainsi, l'Albanie
serait plus sûre et mieux contrôlée. Cette présence internationale sur
le sol albanais serait à la fois le privilège et le prix à payer pour
la concrétisation de ce projet qui placerait le pays au c?ur des
grands axes pétroliers.

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IWPR'S BALKAN CRISIS REPORT, No. 371, October 7, 2002

ROMANIA: PROGRESS IN THE PIPELINE

Bucharest, Belgrade and Zagreb sign up to the construction of an oil
pipeline linking the Black Sea to Western Europe.

By Marian Chiriac in Bucharest

A new oil pipeline linking Romania, Yugoslavia and Croatia could boost
the Balkan nations' battered economies by opening up lucrative trade
routes from Central Asia to Western Europe.
The three states signed an agreement on the 1,200 km long pipeline -
which is to run from Constanta in Romania to the Adriatic oil terminal
near Omisalj, Croatia - in Bucharest on September 10. The contract is
to be finalised in November, according to Serbian officials.
Work on the project could start next year and, once completed, it is
expected to reduce western dependence on Gulf exporters and Russian
pipelines.
There is also potential for the Constanta-Omisalj pipeline - which would
have a capacity of 10 million tonnes of oil per year - to be extended to
Trieste in Italy and beyond.
"The project is one of the most important of its kind in Europe and may
attract financing from the European Union and many important banks and
oil companies," Romanian industry minister Dan Popescu told IWPR.
Analysts agree the pipeline could improve economic development and
international trade in the Balkans, which is making a slow recovery from
years of ethnic conflict and corruption.
"The project's chief selling point is that it will provide access to
Balkan markets, which are now beginning their economic revival," said
Dana Armean of the London-based Economist Intelligence Unit.
Financing remains a problem, as construction is expected to cost around
one billion US dollars, even though some two-thirds of it will be made
up of existing pipelines.
The Serbian section will be the most problematic part of the scheme and
is expected to consume around 80 per cent of the construction budget.
Bucharest officials, however, are confident their section will not be
hard to finance. "The 400 km-long construction on Romanian territory
benefits from easily accessible terrain. This should result in lower
costs and may attract potential investors," said Popescu.
The United States is a key supporter of the project. Washington
officials said recently they are prepared to provide 200,000 dollars to
fund a study into pipeline routes, and to support the scheme as one of
several aimed at enhancing economic cooperation with the Balkan states.
Money is also expected from Interstate Oil and Gas Transport to Europe,
INOGATE, a ten-country project funded by the EU and aimed at developing
a pipeline network stretching from Central Asia to Europe. Balkan
countries have enjoyed limited benefits from this project to date,
despite their strategic position along the east-west corridor.
All countries along the pipeline hope that the project will inject new
life into their shattered economies. "The biggest winner will probably
be Croatia, which has two refineries in Omisalj and great potential for
access to Western Europe," Armean said, pointing out that the latter are
linked by pipeline to Yugoslavia to the south and Hungary and Austria to
the north.
The pipeline may also play a key role in building Balkan security, as
the foreign investment it's expected to attract could strengthen
stability and regional relations.
Some analysts, however, are cautious over the scheme's potential impact
on the area. "The project is probably too small, compared to the scale
of others, and it would be an exaggeration to conclude that somehow it
could lead to intense international interest in the Balkans," Armean
said.

Marian Chiriac is a Bucharest-based journalist

Balkan Crisis Report is supported by the Department for International
Development, the European Commission, the Swedish International
Development and Cooperation Agency, The Netherlands Ministry for Foreign
Affairs, and other funders. IWPR also acknowledges general support from
the Ford Foundation.

Subject: [yugoslaviainfo] Press Release: Announcing The Pavelic
Papers
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:41:22 -0500 (CDT)
From: Predrag Tosic
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[ Ante Pavelic was the leader of infamous and genocidal Nazi
creation, "Independent State of Croatia" (NDH in Serbo-Croatian),
where hundreds of thousands of Serbs, Roma/Gypsies and Jews vanished
solely due to the 'guilt' of their ethnic origin and/or religious
convictions.
Today's legitimacy of Republic of Croatia as a nation-state of
Croatian people in its current borders, as well as (but perhaps to a
slightly lesser extent) that of Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina with
its today's combined Muslim-and-Croat majority, are largely due to
the radically change demographic picture of the region during the
Pavelic and Ustase reign 1941-45, achieved via massive extermination
and ethnic cleansing of Eastern Orthodox Serbs, who were a majority
in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as 30%+ strong minority in today's
Croatia (and overwhelming majority in Krajina and much of Slavonija,
historical provinces in today's Republic of Croatia. (For the record,
the entire today's Bosnia-Herzegovina was also a part of Pavelic's
Nazi state "NDH".) -- PT ]



PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 14, 2002

THE TERRORISTS THAT AMERICA EMBRACED

Announcing PavelicPapers.com - A New Website Exposing the Ustase
Movement - http://www.pavelicpapers.com


CHICAGO -- More than fifty years ago, Ante Pavelic, head of a Nazi
puppet state called the Independent State of Croatia, arrived in
Buenos Aires, Argentina. While the rest of Hitler's Nazi henchmen were
being tried for crimes against humanity in Nuremberg, Pavelic and his
cohorts in the fascist Ustase movement -- responsible for the murder
of more than 30,000 Jews, 40,000 Gypsies and an estimated 500,000
Serbs -- escaped abroad and began planning for a new reign of terror.

Today, owing to the efforts of a new generation of Nazi hunters, the
documents which tell the real story of the Ustase's miraculous
survival are finally being published on the Internet.

A new Internet website, PavelicPapers.com, has been launched to
publish and analyze a tremendous collection of declassified
intelligence documents, court decisions and other materials which
implicate the United States government as well as the Vatican in the
continued existence this deadly terrorist organization. Files from the
archives of the CIA, the FBI and the US Army are augmented with
original background material, making PavelicPapers.com the most
thorough resource on the Ustase ever created and likely to be of equal
use to scholars of the Balkans or the Holocaust as well as students
and readers who have never heard of the Ustase before.

"Without Vatican and intelligence agency intervention, there's no
question: the Ustase would have ceased to exist," says Attorney
Jonathan Levy. Levy has been instrumental in fighting bureaucratic red
tape to find out the truth about the Ustase's survival, through
multiple Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits against the
Army, the CIA and the Vatican Bank, which is alleged to be responsible
for the laundering of millions of dollars worth of gold looted from
Ustase victims.

The Ustase was formed by Ante Pavelic in the early 1930s in Vienna,
Austria. After Hitler's invasion of Yugoslavia in April, 1941, Pavelic
and his Ustase were placed at the head of a Nazi satellite called the
Independent State of Croatia. Within weeks, a massive bloodletting
began as Ustase fanatics descended on Serbian villages, slaughtering
the inhabitants by the most bestial means imaginable -- using knives,
clubs, axes and even chainsaws.
Concentration camps for Jews, Serbs and Gypsies run by the Ustase,
such as Jasenovac, were exceedingly brutal, shocking even hardened
German officers.

After his arrival in Argentina, Pavelic was able to rebuild the Ustase
-- now enrolled as part of an American anti-Communist crusade -- with
cells in countries as far-flung as Australia and West Germany. All
told, the Ustase have been responsible for more than a hundred
terrorist attacks since 1945, including the bombing one airliner and
hijacking two others, the murder and extortion of dozens of
Croatian-Americans and the bombing of dozens of public buildings and
monuments, including the Statue of Liberty.

PavelicPapers.com was created by Cali Ruchala, a 27 year old
publisher, as a robust clearinghouse for documentation on the Ustase.
"I was appalled by the lack of information that's out there, even in
studies of the Holocaust," he says. "This is a terrorist movement that
has lasted for more than seventy years -- longer than the PLO, Hamas,
and al-Qaeda combined." [We completely disagree about including PLO
among "terrorist movements". CNJ]

Governments and individuals have tried to keep these documents
suppressed for years, Ruchala says, and for good reason. "Their
involvement with the Ustase is a textbook case of what the
intelligence community calls 'blowback': a gang of thugs that American
intelligence recruited to fight the Soviets, but who went on to kill
other Americans instead."

PavelicPapers.com is being published without institutional support for
the time being. "My primary goal is simply to get the information out
there," Ruchala says. "We should not subject the victims of the Ustase
to the indignity of being forgotten as well."

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TITLE: The Pavelic Papers

SUBJECT: A clearinghouse for documents about the fascist Ustase
Movement, from 1930 to 1990

URL: http://www.pavelicpapers.com