Oil flows in Chechnya

Sunday 09 November 1997 19:02 EST

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Russian and Chechen officials officially opened yesterday the Chechen section of an international oil pipeline seen as crucial for rebuilding the shattered economy of the breakaway Caucasus region.

The 600-mile pipeline links Azerbaijan's offshore Caspian Sea fields to Russia's Black Sea port of Novorosiisk. The Chechen section was badly damaged during a 1994-96 war between Russian troops and separatist guerrillas.

The brief ceremony came a day after the Azerbaijan International Operating Company, an $8bn consortium of world oil giants, said it had started pumping the first crude through the pipeline.

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