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Article: OPIC Announces Insurance for Natural Gas Pipeline in Israel; CEOCredits Aspen Institute's Middle East Strategy Group

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December 7, 2004
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The board of directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) approved $250 million in political risk insurance for the construction of a 65- mile pipeline that will serve as the centerpiece of Israel's natural gas system. OPIC president and CEO Dr. Peter Watson credited the Aspen Institute's Middle East Strategy Group (MESG) as instrumental in informing OPIC's decision on this natural gas project.

The Aspen Middle East Strategy Group (MESG), whose honorary co- chairs include former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Madeleine Albright, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Chuck Hagel, and Israeli and Palestinian businessmen Idan Ofer and ...

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