C. lawyer who helped write the 1977 law as a Carter Administration official and now serves on a committee that oversees sales generated by the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea.

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Fortunately, there is historical precedent for virtually the same course of diplomacy, as U.S. support for the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) and Baku-Tbilisi-Erzurum (BTE) projects of 2006 allowed the respective governments of Georgia and Azerbaijan to resist Russian influence and utilize their own resources.

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