Fairy tale with the happy end.
Fairy tale with the happy end.
Bough.
- Hello, welcome, the mountain with mountain does not converge, and
The person with the person...
In process of approach of the termination of a trip before you all more sharply and
More sharply there is "a souvenir question". And to solve it, of course,
Is better on a market. However, "it is better - not better" it, probably,
Disputably, and is precisely more interestingly.
The Baghdad markets it is not simple a place where trade. It -
The phenomenon, at attempt to describe which all words seem grey and
The insipid. So also we even will not try.
One of the most attractive for the foreigner of places in Bagdad -
Silver market. Here, if you are a good judge of it, it is possible to buy
Unique things old - instead of under olden time - jobs.
If "sense" you do not know - "vparjat", and vtridoroga, under the price
The antiques, any novodel. However, you will be afflicted
Not for long, because a bagatelle which you have bought, let even
Having overpaid, first, all the same will be surprisingly beautiful and
Arabian, secondly, anywhere, except as in Bagdad, all of you
Equally such do not buy, thirdly, it will be all the same cheaper,
Than similar - in Russia or somewhere else.
So if will be in Bagdad, necessarily go on this bough
(A market, in an Arabian way), close to the Muslim spiritual
Academy.
And here here you are waited already by Feodor Ivanovich.
Small rostochka the mobile Arab will unmistakably allocate you in
To dense crowd, and you, powerlessly obeying its stream of eloquence and
East charm, it is imperceptible for itself appear in it
To antique shop. Here you are waited already by its owner - Mohammed.
In Russian he does not speak, but in English - quite. By the way, that
Successfully to bargain on the Baghdad market, it is enough to be able distinctly
To say "hau mach?", "nou" and to know English numerals. And
To bargain it is necessary: first, it is tradition, and Arabs
Traditions chtut, secondly, on yours "hau mach?" Will by all means name
The price, for pair usages above the real. And price lists, by the way,
In shops, especially on a market you will not find.
And here Mohammed already names the figure: hundred dollars.
Feodor Ivanovich laughs, says, that on a market two fools:
One sells, another buys and advises to you: "Ask
Twenty ". Ah, what nice fellow... In general, you already at it on a hook, and
It is necessary to have the big will power to leave a bench without purchase.
And Mohammed, meanwhile, having heard your price, well just a head
Ashes does not strew. You have extremely afflicted him with the price and that not
To die of affliction, it sends the boy, which here
Turns, over tea.
Tea, by the way, in an Arabian way too tea and very tasty.
However, very sweet. The tiny glass narrowed in "waist"
- On pair-three drinks. For this time Feodor Ivanovich is in time
To read to you and Pushkin, and Majakovsky and to give the next advice:
"Good, dollars ten add - a thing really good, at
You very good taste, - but is no more ". The nice fellow, honestly!
There is still a glass - but already other grade and so
It is tasty. Mohammed - a embodiment of tragedy. But professional
Debt - above all, and, overcoming a pain from spiritual wounds,
Which you have put it the offer, it shows you all
New and new knickknacks. Almost everyone is accompanied by a word
"antik".
- Whence you so know Russian, Feodor Ivanovich?
- O-o-o, I very much for a long time veins in Odessa.
- And what there did?
Feodor Ivanovich as though does not notice a question. However a subject
Supports.
- But also here your, Russian, Soviet always was much. - and
Adds: - And all of them through our bench have passed!
Mohammed speaks something to the boy, and that gets lots of the visiting
Cards in Russian. Come across, I will report on you, very loud
Surnames.
In general, eventually I hide the knickknacks in a pocket
("Has overpaid, - the expert who has appeared in our group speaks then.
And there and then consoles: - But Mohammed, Feodor Ivanovich is a little "), and,
Which generally call Hamid, and remained anonymous the boy
Are long excused, as with the best friend, speak "come still",
"velkam" and "greetings of Russia".
You understand, that before you have played performance, but "thrown"
Yourself you do not feel at all (as if has overpaid
It is a little).
And still the splinter any itches. Aha, here it: "Earlier
Russian here always was "much. Intonation Hamida -" Feodor
Ivanovicha ": it is sensitive was beat out from a role bodrjachka, the
Regular guys. From a role to which the regret is not peculiar.
The regret, that raneshnie times have passed, seemed to me,
Was not strummed - sincere.
Diplomatic pill.
To intensive economic cooperation of our countries - more
Forty years. As the minister of trade of Iraq Dr. Muhammad Mahda has told
Saleh, in separate years the cooperation volume reached seven
Billions dollars plus of ten billions - in area
Arms.
Oil extracting, irrigatsija, mechanical engineering, agriculture,
The public health services - are difficult to name branch where would not be
Contacts and contracts between the USSR and Iraq.
"Thousand Soviet experts worked on oil fields
In Iraq, - other minister - oil - Amer Mohammed speaks
ar-Rashid. - if to speak about the technician, pipelines, even after
30 years of service, are in a good status.
The pump equipment - too ".
"From other countries we imported production only in that
Case if it was not at you - Dr. Saleh speaks. - So
Saddam Hussein has disposed, yes store its Allah ".
However, the minister of trade recognised, that if to speak about
Consumer goods their import from our country "was rather
It is limited, except cars "Harmony" and "Volga".
Now in this sector of trade the situation if has changed, that
To the worst: Russian "consumer goods" in Iraq practically
No.
It especially, apparently, is surprising if to consider, that Iraq
Still gives a priority of Russia within the limits of the program "Oil in
Exchange for the foodstuffs and medicines ". And, according to Dr. Saleha,
This advantage has even more become stronger after Russia not
Has allowed to realise "clever sanctions". This year, he has told, with
By Russia it is concluded contracts on 1,2 billion dollars. It
More than in total with China and France occupying
The second and third places.
Where then the Russian stamp? "We do not trade with the Netherlands,
But the Russian companies deliver us their production ", hints
The minister of trade. And at oil refining factory "п п?я п " to us
Have told without hints: "your companies represent often production
Not Russian, and foreign manufacture - them interest only
Commission fee ".
Whether it is necessary to say, that military-technical cooperation, in
That number and purchases of arms, now and for long years forward
It is curtailed to zero - Russia rigidly observes embargo in this
Areas. However, traffic in arms, as though it was favourable with
The points of view of economy, - not that business to which can be proud.
First of all, from moral reasons.
The it is less in the world of bombs, the, whether know, somehow more easy.
I will notice, by the way, that all our high Iraq interlocutors
With word, hint have not mentioned about any necessity
To renew contacts here again: tabuirovannaja a subject, and if so -
What for once again for nothing to rend the air.
That to other areas of cooperation, all without an exception
And, that is called, unanimously underlined, first, the high
Today's level of relations between our countries, secondly,
That it can be considerable above.
Such diplomatic pill has turned out: discontent in
To "positive" cover.
Here an example - the program of long-term cooperation,
In cost of 40 billion dollars. According to Dr. Saleha,
Is planned to carry out 17 projects in neftegazodobyche, 15 - in
The industries, on six - in petrochemistry and electric power industry, 8 -
In irrigatsii, five - in agriculture, 14 - in transport, in
That number both railway, and the communications, three - in public health services.
"Similar, the minister of trade has told, is not present with one state
The world. But it is far from that volume which could be reached ".
Here it is necessary to notice, that though the program, according to ours
Ambassador Alexander Sheyin, it is not signed yet but only it is paraphed,
Some small projects have already entered a realisation stage. It
Has underlined, that in Iraq now work only small and average
The Russian companies.
Big - wait. More precisely, wait.
Football on oil fields.
In 1997 oil company "LUKOIL" and the government of Iraq
Have signed the unique developmental contract of one of the largest
In the world of deposits Western п я я п?п -2.
To noise this contract has done much. And not only in Iraq and
Russia. The deposit was given to our company on conditions
SRP for 23 years. Its share in the project - 68,5 percent.
The is conditional-proved stocks of a deposit - 2,4 billion
Barrels. The general extraction will make 700 million tons at
Investment of 4 billion dollars. The maximum annual volume -
30-35 million tons from 500 chinks it is reached for the seventh year and
10 years are supported. These data - from an official site
The companies. I mention because in the Russian press only term
The contract - 23 years - as though it to tell, is not discussed. But
Capacity of a deposit varies from 4,5 billion barrels to
15 billion. Also the sum of investments is so dashing dances.
But the god with them, with figures. The main problem consists that
Since then LUKOIL actually and has not started realisation
The project.
Quite clearly, that it cannot like Iraq. In the end
Last year the minister of oil ar-Rashid has declared, that LUKOIL can
To lose the contract, and in the beginning of the present one more has followed
"zvonochek" - from deputy minister Faiza Shahina.
For Iraq this project is important both on economic, and on
To political reasons. And it is difficult to tell, that more
Important.
On the one hand, undermined by blockade Iraq "neftjanka"
Extremely is in great need in investments (say, that their volume
Reads off scale far for 30 billion dollars), which in the country
Now simply is not present.
On the other hand, undermining an embargo mode "on a stone, on
To brick ", Iraq with Western п я я п?п?п -2 expected to make break
In this field. That, certainly, would have a huge resonance and
Has brought to Iraq large political dividends.
LUKOIL as it is visible, has not justified these hopes. However, Amer
Mohammed ar-Rashid, answering a question of your correspondent, in
What now a status the project, was limited only short "It
It is frozen ".
Whether says it about tactics change - that Iraq comes back
To practice, it is good itself recommended, mode undermining
Sanctions? Probably. But also scale projects too are not forgotten.
The minister of oil, in particular, has declared intention to begin
To maintain two thousand chinks and has added: "For us would be
bolshej pleasure to give corresponding tenders to the Russian
To the companies. And we have undertaken a number of economic measures (I do not want
To go into details), but the preference at all competitions will be
To be given to the Russian companies. And now the ball is on them
To half of field ".
As we see, Iraq persistently enough pushes us to
To actions. And thus, by the way, he considers, that at Russia is
Legal basis for these actions - article 50 of the charter of the United Nations,
Which as convinced us at once some ministers, grants the right
Russia as to the country suffering a damage from blockade of Iraq (that
Corresponds to the validity), to expand cooperation with them
And thus to compensate a damage. A number of the countries, spoke to us, in
Particulars, Turkey, have used this right.
But, probably, we differently treat this article. The ambassador of Russia in
Iraq Alexander Sheyin has declared to us, that it grants the right only
To consult to United Nations Security council...
But there is one more very much a prominent aspect of cooperation with Iraq in
Oil business.
For a minute we will present, that LUKOIL, and also Slavneft,
Rosneft and other our companies hilling the Iraq oil
Fields, suddenly took and realised the projects. In the world market
At once the offer will increase, so, the prices for oil will go
Downwards. And we will cut a bough on which we sit.
Whether it is real? Perhaps, and yes, also is not present. But more likely all the same is not present.
Yes, general Rashid said us, that Iraq extracting now three
One million barrels a day and 2,3 million exporting from them
Barrels (accordingly, 60 and 45 million tons a year), has
Potential of 4-4,5 million barrels a day even before removal of sanctions.
Right after cancellations of embargo extraction can increase on two
One million barrels.
However, in its opinion, the Iraq oil serves on the world
The market the stabilizer of the prices. So stabilizirujushcha and a role of Iraq in
The OPEC. And, having increased the potential, Iraq could more successfully
To resist in this cartel of Saudi Arabia, through which USA
Impose the OPEC of the decision which lead to falling of the prices. "A role
Iraq, speaks ar-Rashid, consists in opposing
Economic activities to political factors. And it will be on
Advantage of Russia ".
Convincingly? Quite. But if for someone - not so, that is and
Other arguments. For example, such: a petroleum industry of Iraq
In such status, that sharp increase in volume of extraction
Simply it is impossible.
Accordingly, sharp falling of the prices for oil is impossible also.
However, unfortunately, the world price of oil from a category
Economic for a long time has already passed in a category political...
"For Russia".
Jury Shafranik, being the minister of fuel and power
The Russian Federation, became the first official so high
The rank, visited Iraq from the moment of the blockade beginning.
Now, even after has retired with gosudarevoj
Services, it is one of the most authoritative Russians in this
To the country (on an unconditional first place - president Vladimir
Putin. Especially after has declared necessity of cancellation
Sanctions against Iraq).
To get to hotel "Al Rashid" where Jury has stopped
SHafranik and where we have decided to have a drink kofejku, it is necessary to pass on
George Bush's to mosaic face. I have not understood, what is Bush - the senior
Or younger. Has understood only, that in English there it is written: "Bush -
The criminal ". I do not wish to offend hospitable Iraqis, but this
"Evident propaganda" looks like small hooliganism.
Later SHafranik has said such phrase: "We here not against
Americas, and for Russia ".
It has been told in the first day of our trip, and all
The next days and that time which I have spent for preparation
This material, have only convinced me that it is
Key in definition of a policy of Russia concerning Iraq and
Other Near East. Anyway it, this phrase,
Should be key if for any reasons did not become
It.
Minister Shafranik prepared the first trip to Iraq long, but
It hardly was has not broken at the last minute, because ours
Transport chiefs have not wanted to let out the plane. SHafranik
Has threatened to call a press - conference, and the permission to a start was
It is received.
There were also other situations. For example, when over Iran for
By plane Shafranika interceptors chased. A thriller any, and
Not business visit. Went and by the car - on desert, through a frisk on
Three borders. Probably, it is less dangerous, than by the plane in
Support aggressively adjusted and completely not honourable
Escort American or English - who there will disassemble them? -
Interceptors. But, having swept once by the car, since then
Essentially to Iraq only flies.
Those who know Jury Shafranika, are not surprised to that it goes
On risk. He likes sharp situations (not casually in due time
Has chosen boxing), it is good in them is guided, and they stimulate it
Vitality.
However SHafranik if risks it is rather prudent. Not
There will be the big exaggeration if we tell what exactly it
Has loosened air blockade of Iraq, flying here at first as the minister,
And then, organizuja trips of businessmen, politicians - from
"Unities" to the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - or here us, journalists. And once a dam
Has broken. It happens after SHafranik has arrived here
Essentially not having asked the United Nations permission. In the following of 30 days
The airport of Bagdad has accepted neither much nor few 68 planes.
That LUKOIL has received Western Kurnu, Shafranik - the minister
Only Hussein met twice (for three hours with an eye on
Eye).
And it too was some kind of, break. However, stopped on
Halfway. But half SHafranik has passed.
We sit, we have a drink kofeek in hotel named in honour of real and
Fantastic simultaneously Garuna al Rashida, and SHafranik speaks:
- Yes, aggression should be punished. When the person put in
Prison on a court sentence, it name term. But here have planted in
Prison the whole people, and term have not named. And that, by the way,
Undermines authority of the United Nations as actually not it defines
Punishment. It is awful - to hold in isolation the whole people. And to hold
It is termless.
But SHafranik also the pragmatist.
- Not too it is a lot of on the earth of places where it is a lot of oil. At us, in
Tyumen, the extraction cost price - five dollars barrel, and here -
Five dollars ton... And it is a little on the earth is the countries, where us still
Wait.
Having left with gosudarevoj as it is expressed, services and hardly
oklemavshis, Jury Shafranik has created committee cultural, scientific and
Business cooperation "Iraq-Russia". "Here are trampled down one hundred
Our companies also stir each other, - he has explained me a problem
Committee. - we co-ordinate their job, operating, of course, in
Close contact to administration of the president of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ". At all
Thus the state in committee in any way is not registered. It not
The Soviet sample a friendship society. It is quite pragmatic
Structure which pragmatists also have created - LUKOIL,
Zarubezhneft, Rosneft and a number of other companies having in Iraq
Business interest. Interest will be gone - the committee will disappear also. SHafranik
About it also is not under a delusion.
But that was not gone, he is convinced, Russia in Iraq is obliged
To be fixed. Sanctions will cancel sooner or later, and if we to that
Time we will not be fixed, then we here will not be.
It is necessary to relax, and we will go here only to look
To Babylon, Jury Shafranik speaks.
He is convinced and that as sanctions will remove not
Somebody, and Americans with Englishmen - such is a reality, -
Their companies will be included also the first into just open door.
And it too a reality from which it is necessary to be considered. Iraq it
Too understands. It does not have choice: or blockade, or
American-English presence.
But while... While it is necessary to undermine blockade. On a stone, on
To brick.
Now at Jury Shafranika is small as he speaks,
The company under name Sojuzneftegaz which he has characterised
As investment holding.
Year, as he said, it punched here the project. An essence such:
To master a small deposit "from a chink to the tanker".
The most important task - to put the United Nations before the fact.
"Americans can arrest this tanker? Yes, can. Can
Me to make not entrance? Yes, can. I risk. But it is important to make
Break. As with air blockade ", - he speaks.
However, the ambassador of Russia in Iraq Alexander Sheyin to this invention
Concerns obviously disapprovingly: "We are obliged to observe resolutions
The United Nations ". But we will consider, that as in due time has told Talejran,
Language to the diplomat allowed to hide thoughts...
... Without fools to leave Iraq not that that would not be desirable - houses
All the same it is better, - but it was somehow a pity. As almost on
All hundred is assured, that never more here will not get, and will not see
And a small share from this, that it would be desirable to see.
The country from a fairy tale. And at a fairy tale necessarily should be
The happy end.
Yes, and at last. When departed, at the airport have seen the plane with
Cyrillics onboard: "Belavia". The have arrived...
Vladimir KNYAZEV.
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