On Friday Astana hosted the 8th sitting of the Kazakh-US Committee for Energy Partnership presided over by Oil and Gas Minister Sauat Mynbayev and US Deputy Secretary of Energy Daniel Poneman.
In case of a geopolitical deal, the U.S. will keep Kazakhstan, north Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, while Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan may be farmed out to Islamists: Expert.