Caucasian Common Market

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The idea of a Caucasian Common Market (founded in 1997), was created to bring prosperity and well-being to the entire region, and in addition, its recognition by the world community as an important subject of international commodity exchange and, consequently, international law. The idea itself was first nurtured by the British in the 1920s.

What's new is that the key place in today's plans is occupied by Chechnya, which has never been either the political, or economic, or cultural centre of the region, as well as the fact that figuring in the company of co-founders are both former Chechen mafia boss and Chechen First Deputy Premier Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev and Margaret Thatcher's close friend, Lord Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine, of the Goldsmith family interests in London. Chechen relations with Georgia have become the key component of the process of the realisation of the idea of creating the common market.^[1]

This project is on the stage of implementation: in Georgia a branch of Caucasian Common Market (CCM) and a company for insurance of foreign investments is established, an industrial construction consortium "Caucasus" is organised that apart from renovation of the port Poti plans to construct motorways and railways in Chechnya. The executive bodies of Caucasian Common Market are also represented in Baku, Azerbaijan. During April 1997 the Caucasian-American Chamber of Commerce (KATPP), as part of it Caucasian investment fund, was organised in the US. These organisations collected $3 billion USD as the initial capital for the projects of Caucasian Common Market. CCM also has headquarters in London and is advised by Zbigniew Bzhezinski, Henry Kissinger and Margaret Thatcher. Jacques Attali, former head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and current head of its group of experts, became the chamber's visiting card. Other organisers of the conference were Georgian MPs from the ruling party and the London Institute of War and Peace.^[2]