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Old Union Guy

(738 posts) Fri May 4, 2012, 06:41 PM May 2012

U.S.-Financed Pipeline Benefiting UAE Royal Family Moves Forward

U.S.-Financed Pipeline Benefiting UAE Royal Family Moves Forward
http://www.tradeaidmonitor.com/2012/05/us-financed-pipeline-uae-royal.html

The U.S has taken the next step in carrying out plans to help finance a gas pipeline-extension benefiting royals of the United Arab Emirates.

As U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor reported late last year, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) intends to provide an unspecified level of financial support to build the 47 kilometer natural-gas pipeline in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The agency claims that the Kutaisi-Abasha project, as it is known, will provide “energy security” in the region.

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Money talks.

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