VOL. XLIV

No. 20

14-May-2001

CASPIAN

Ashgabat Talks On Disputed Offshore Fields End Without Success

Two days of talks in the Turkmen capital, Ashgabat, between foreign ministry officials from Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on disputed offshore oilfields in the Caspian Sea ended on 3 May without agreement and with Turkmenistan threatening to take the dispute to international arbitration. The talks followed a meeting between Azerbaijani President Haydar Aliyev and Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov...