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Taleban to texas for unical pipeline talks { December 3 1997 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west_asia/36735.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/west_asia/36735.stm Wednesday, 3 December, 1997, 15:56 GMT Taleban to Texas for pipeline talks A senior delegation of Afghanistan's Taleban movement has gone to the United States for talks. The delegation is to meet officials of the company which wants to build a pipeline to export gas from Turkmenistan across Afghanistan to Pakistan. A spokesman for the company -- Unocal in Texas -- said it had agreed with Turkmenistan to sell its gas. Last month an Argentinian company (Bridas) said it would soon sign a deal to build the pipeline. Unocal is said to have already begun teaching Afghan men technical skills. The BBC regional correspondent says a pipeline deal would boost the Afghan economy, but peace must be established first, and that still seems a distant prospect. From the newsroom of the BBC World Service

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