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."
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The committee also discussed a "draft statement of the committee's longer run goals and policy strategy", to be discussed in January.
Analysts cheered a draftstatement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) that said the government plans to pay for prostate cancer treatment Provenge, made by Seattle-based biotechnology firm Dendreon.