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Whereas the United States, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia 
engage in strategic cooperation to promote and safeguard 
common values; 
Whereas this multinational cooperation will continue to be a 
great asset for preserving regional peace, security, and 
wealth, as well as defending democracy and freedom in 
Eurasia; 
Whereas, on March 22, 2007, Secretary of State Condoleezza 
Rice and the Azerbaijani Minister of Foreign Affairs 
Elmar Mammadyarov signed a memorandum of under-
standing for a dialogue on energy security in the Caspian 
region; 
Whereas, on November 16, 2007, Turkey’s minister of energy 
and natural resources and the United States secretary of 
energy met and agreed that energy security is a central 
component of both country’s national and economic secu-
rity interests; 
Whereas leaders of countries in the region exchanged views 
on the importance of Caspian basin energy resources and 
decided to continue to work together to develop these re-
sources and the transit routes that will take those sup-
plies to the international marketplace; 
Whereas the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline, the second 
largest oil pipeline in the world, has connected 
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey with global 
markets; 
Whereas the BTC, which stands today as one of the most vi-
sionary strategic investments in the region, has become 
a permanent component of global energy security and a 
crucial artery for the interdependence of the countries 
concerned; 
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Whereas new opportunities have emerged in Turkmenistan 
for the realization of the Turkmenistan-Trans Caspian- 
Turkey-Europe Gas Pipeline Project (TCP); 
Whereas an intergovernmental agreement between Azerbaijan 
and Turkmenistan would further advance the TCP; 
Whereas the Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum natural gas pipeline, con-
sidered the first leg of the TCP, has been built and be-
came operational on July 3, 2007; 
Whereas Iraqi natural gas can and should be linked to the 
East-West Energy Corridor through Turkey, including 
the Nabucco pipeline; 
Whereas, on November 18, 2007, natural gas from Azer-
baijan flowed into the European Union for the first time, 
through the Turkey-Greece Gas Interconnector section of 
the Turkey-Greece-Italy Interconnector pipeline, to be 
fully operational by 2012; and 
Whereas Turkey and Israel are jointly working for the real-
ization of the Turkey-Israel Multi-Pipeline System, which 
will have far-reaching contributions for global energy se-
curity as the North-South energy corridor is becoming as 
important as the East-West energy corridor: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) commends Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and 
Kazakhstan for their positive contributions to the 
East-West Energy Corridor and energy security in 
the region; 
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(2) encourages the Administration to continue 
to engage with the countries in the region and pro-
vide political and economic support for the projects; 
(3) suggests the Administration should be in-
volved in the facilitation of the energy security of 
transit countries based on usage of the East-West 
Energy Corridor; 
(4) calls on the Administration to use more sec-
retary or high-level delegations to increase diplo-
matic ties with the region; 
(5) supports the newly-appointed Special Envoy 
for Eurasian Energy, and encourages his full en-
gagement with the countries in the region, notably 
Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, and Kazakhstan; 
(6) calls on the Administration to actively en-
gage with European allies and encourage the Euro-
pean Union to developed a unified stance on the 
Nabucco project and become more involved; 
(7) notes that economic and commercial 
projects offer greater promise than political, mili-
tary, and institutional structures in promoting inte-
gration and development in the region; and 
(8) urges the Administration to actively engage 
in the region in its efforts to secure the necessary 
guarantees for the realization of the projects under 
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development, including the Samsun-Ceyhan oil pipe-
line, the Turkmenistan-Trans Caspian-Turkey-Eu-
rope Gas Pipeline Project, Nabucco, and Turkey- 
Iraq natural gas pipelines, and in this framework, 
intensify demarches related to Azerbaijan, Kazakh-
stan, Turkmenistan, and Iraq. 
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