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[DOC] Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline: 13 April 2005 comments by Corner House, Kurdish Human Rights Project, Environmental Defense on BP statement of 4 April 2005
Whilst we welcome BP’s response to the recent NGO Fact Finding Mission report on the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which revealed major human rights concerns relating to expropriation of land, consultation and the treatment of local critics, we greatly regret that the company has declined to answer the specific documented instances of human rights abuses recorded in the report and the accompanying Trial Observation Report.