Turkmen and Russian FMs discuss upcoming Caspian summit agenda
Date
2/23/2022 2:18:11 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency)
BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 23
By Amina Nazarli - Trend:
The agenda of the sixth Caspian Summit, to be held this year in
Turkmenistan, was discussed by Rashid Meredov, Turkmen Foreign
Minister and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov during a meeting
in Moscow on February 22, Trend reports citing Turkmenportal.
“Preparations for the sixth Caspian summit in Ashgabat are
entering the finish line. We hope that this year, in hospitable
Turkmenistan, we will be able to meet and make the decisions that
are currently being negotiated,” Lavrov said.“We perceive the
negotiation process in the same way, and I am sure that we will be
able to agree on a good package of final documents.”
Originally, the sixth Caspian Summit was scheduled to take place
in Turkmenistan in 2021, but it was later postponed to 2022.
The Kazakh city of Aktau hosted the 5th Summit of the Heads of
State of the Caspian littoral states in August 2018, where the
sides signed the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea,
a historic document for the region, the work on which has been
carried out for two decades since 1996.
According to the document, it is possible to lay submarine
cables and pipelines along the bottom of the Caspian Sea 'provided
that their designs comply with environmental requirements and
standards enshrined in international treaties to which they are
parties'.
The signing of the Caspian Convention is also a significant step
towards global energy security. The relevant negotiations have been
conducted since 2011 between the interested parties-the EU,
Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. In particular, the project of laying
the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline to the shores of Azerbaijan, from
where the Turkmen raw material can be delivered to Turkey and
further to Europe, is being promoted.
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