The draft joint statement also called for progress on ITGI, a Turkish-Greek gas pipeline taking gas to Italy, and for an extension of an oil transport system between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan that "could be developed in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea region."

VOA: standard.2009.05.08

This is important, because it's the black earth region of rich agriculture there.

这是很重要的一点,因为他们住在农业发达的黑土地区

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