1.   Until now France has been the principal export outlet.

2.   Dawida heads the Joint State Government Commission Task Force on Eastern European Business Development, a legislative panel established to recommend export outlets to Gov. Tom Ridge.

3.   Key export outlets are new markets in South Africa, Europe, North and South America.

4.   Turkmenistan has no export outlet of its own to send its gas to Europe and relies on a pipeline running through Russia and Ukraine.

5.   Recently, dockers at the Russian port of Dudinka, the key Norilsk export outlet, threatened to strike over pay.

6.   The aim was to establish an export outlet for the landlocked region.

7.   The export outlets are ready.