Background on "India conjures powerful vision of 'pipeline diplomacy'"
Article from: OGEL 1 (2005), in Pipelines
Introduction
India conjures powerful vision of 'pipeline diplomacy' By Edward Luce and John Ridding Financial Times, Jan 20, 2005 Some dismiss Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's hyperactive petroleum minister, as a pipe-dreamer. But if only a third of the transnational gas pipelines he is talking about were completed, Mr Aiyar would have altered the way diplomacy is done in south Asia. Signs of that could already be apparent. Last week Mr Aiyar pulled off what would have been unthinkable a year ago when he persuaded his counterparts in Bangladesh and Burma to agree in principle ...