Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 19

11-May-2009

CASPIAN

Turkmenistans Gas Diplomacy Increasingly Leaning Westwards

Turkmenistans President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is increasingly emphasizing options for cooperation with Western countries in his month-old diplomatic confrontation with Russia. Addressing the UN sponsored conference on Reliable and Stable Transit of Energy and Its Role in Ensuring Sustainable Development and International Cooperation in Ashgabat on 23 April, he declared that...