Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LIII

No 48

29-Nov-2010

CASPIAN

Turkmenistan Tilts Towards West, Considers Rapprochement With Azerbaijan

Theodoros Tsakiris reports from Ashgabat.

Few people expected that a quasi-ceremonial meeting between the heads of the five Caspian littoral states in Baku on 18 November would yield any significant developments on one of the most persistent diplomatic Gordian knots in the post-Soviet Central Asian and Caspian Region. For almost 20 years all five states...