Expert seminar

To facilitate debate about the concerns raised by the project, the Baku Ceyhan Campaign held an Experts’ Seminar on 28^th October 2002, chaired by Lord Avebury of the All Party Parliamentary Human Rights Group. The seminar was attended by an invited audience of over 100 parliamentarians, civil servants, journalists, financial analysts and investors. Speakers included experts with direct experience of BP’s operations in Alaska, Colombia and the North Sea. The seminar also heard from delegates from Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey who were visiting Britain as part of an international Fact Finding Mission from the region to learn more about UK involvement in the project and BP’s role and record. Although the organisers of the seminar invited a speaker from BP, the company declined to attend the meeting. BP told the seminar’s organisers that the issues that were likely to be raised "had been well rehearsed already".

Read the expert seminar report