Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 47

23-Nov-2009

CASPIAN

US Offers To Mediate In Turkmen-Azeri Dispute

Daniel Stein, a senior assistant to Ambassador Richard Morningstar, the US special envoy for Eurasian energy, told a press conference in Ashgabat last week that Washington was willing to mediate in the Azeri-Turkmen dispute over the delimitation of their respective territorial waters in the Caspian Sea, which is hindering the construction of a trans-Caspian gas pipeline. Mr Stein said that ...