Energy cooperation to top agenda of Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan talks.

BAKU, October 2 (Itar-Tass) - Energy cooperation will top the agenda
of the high-level talks between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan within the
framework of Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev's visit to Baku that
begins on Friday.

According to diplomatic sources, Nazarbayev and his Azerbaijani
counterpart Ilkham Aliyev will hold one-to-one meeting and after this the
two countries' governmental delegations will join.
The parties are expected to consider all aspects of bilateral
relations as well as international and regional problems, including the
Caspian Sea region.
After the talks the leaders will sign an agreement and a memorandum of
interaction in transiting Kazakh oil through the Caspian Sea to the
territory of Azerbaijan. The two countries' experts said on Thursday these
documents envision the creation of a joint venture for oil shipment from
the eastern to western coast of the Caspian Sea and the use of Azerbaijan'
s infrastructure for exports to the world markets.
The Azerbaijani-Kazakh intergovernmental commission on cooperation
proposed another five documents for signing. On this list are agreements
on the settlement of debts that emerged in 1992-1993, on cooperation in
veterinary science, agriculture, visaless trips and a joint declaration on
fraternal ties between Azerbaijan's Sumgait and Kazakhstan's Aktau.
After the talks Nazarbayev and Aliyev will leave for Nakhichevan,
Azerbaijan's exclave, which will host the Turkish Speaking Countries
Summit on October 3. They will be joined by Kyrgyz and Turkish presidents
Kurmanbek Bakiyev and Abdullah Gul.



.Russia feels demand for labour migrants despite crisis.

MINSK, October 2 (Itar-Tass) - Russia feels demand for labour migrants
despite the global financial crisis, said the head of the Russian federal
migration service, Konstantin Romodanovsky.
"The main thing is that we did not allow to draw a line under labour
migration, the migration flow exists and everybody believes that economic
migration is needed," he told the council of the heads of the CIS
migration agencies in Minsk on Thursday.
"Every country protects its labour market, but judging by the figures
labour migrants remain on demand despite the crisis," he said adding that
a slight reduction in the number of migrant workers on the Russian market
is the result of migration regulation measures.
"Nobody in Russia said 'stop' to migration, quotas are reserved by 50
percent and not cut," he said noting that such situation is reported
nationwide, including Moscow. "We are interested that foreign workers get
jobs at Russia's profit-making enterprises and choose the job they want."
Romodanovsky stressed that a new draft law that will ease foreign
workers' activities in Russia was drafted. Under this law migrants will
get special work permits similar to the European Union blue cards.
"We do not invent anything new, we just borrow experience of Europe,
America and Canada," he said.


.Sakhalin' .Sakhalin's LNG goes to Asian and US markets.
.Sakhalin's LNG goes to Asian and US markets.

YUZHNO-SAKHALINSK, October 2 (Itar-Tass) - Sakhalin's liquefied
natural gas has been exported to Japan, South Korea, the United States,
Taiwan and China since its fist shipment in February, a source at the
international conference Sakhalin Oil and Gas-2009 said on Friday.
Taiwan and China have not concluded any contracts on LNG shipments,
however "these countries could get liquefied gas from official consumers -
companies of Japan, the U.S. and South Korea." "This is not forbidden by
the contracts between those companies and Sakhalin Energy that produces
LNG on Sakhalin," the source said.
South Korean consulate-general in Vladivostok Kim Moo Young, who is
taking part in the conference, welcomed as positive the fulfillment of
contract shipments. "Two tankers arrived in South Korea bringing 128,000
tonnes of Sakhalin's LNG," he said.
South Korea's state-owned company Kogas signed a 24-year contract with
Sakhalin Energy for annual shipments of 1.5 million tonnes of Sakhalin's
LNG. Along with this the LNG consumption is on the rise in the republic,
and Kogas hopes to increase supplies.
According to Kogas specialists, South Korea's annual LNG consumption
is over 20 million tonnes. It imports liquefied gas from Qatar, Oman,
Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia and Russia. Qatar is the biggest LNG
supplier in the republic with the annual export volume of 7 million tonnes.
Russia's first LNG plant and an oil terminal were built in Sakhalin's
port of Prigorodnoye. First LNG shipments began in February 2009.