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    UKRAINIAN OPPOSITION TV SEES PROGRESS ON AZERI OIL

    TV 5 Kanal, Kiev
    3 Jun 04

    (Presenter) In all likelihood, the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline will be
    pumping Azeri oil. The deputy prime ministers of Ukraine and Azerbaijan
    have signed an agreement on cooperation in the oil sector. Kiev and
    Baku agreed to provide conditions for the transport of oil through
    Ukraine and Azerbaijan, but within the existing capabilities. It
    is unclear where the limit of the existing capabilities lies. The
    agreement is the main outcome of the first day of (Azerbaijani)
    President Ilham Aliyev's state visit to Ukraine.

    For the first time throughout his years in office, (Ukrainian)
    President Leonid Kuchma has openly taken sides with a post-Soviet
    country in its conflict with another country. Kuchma resolutely
    supported Baku in its fight for the return of Nagornyy Karabakh to
    Azerbaijan. Kuchma said openly that Ukraine has always supported
    and will continue to support Azerbaijan's territorial integrity.
    His counterpart Ilham Aliyev said that the truth in the conflict is
    on the side of his homeland.

    (Passage omitted: background to Nagornyy Karabakh conflict between
    Azerbaijan and Armenia)

    (Kuchma, in Russian) Over 20 per cent of Azerbaijani territory is
    occupied by Armenia. It is necessary to call a spade a spade.

    (Aliyev, in Russian) Ukraine's unequivocal position on a just
    settlement of the conflict on the basis of international law commands
    great respect.

    (Audio and video available. Please send queries to
    [email protected])
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