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by Chris Devonshire-Ellis The EU may have to bend some of its principles to obtain gas from Central Asia, while Russia and China will be warily looking out for the potential of Western induced conflict over energy resources. It is not within some irony that the European Union has turned to Central Asia’s Turkmenistan in[…..]
Opens up Iranian access to Turkey’s Black Sea Iran and Turkey are set to have another border crossing, between Iran’s Razi town in its West Azerbaijan Province (north-western Iran) and Turkey’s Kapikoy town on the Turkish side. The border crossing should be functional by the end of May this year.
The first container train to arrive in China directly from Turkmenistan has reached its destination in China’s Xinjiang Province. It was routed via Kazakhstan, according to Turkmenportal.
Kazakhstan’s volume of cargo, luggage and cargo luggage transported via maritime and coastal transport during the first two months of 2022 reached 157,940 tons, 5.4% more compared to the same period of last year. Kazakhstan has three operating seaports, Aqtau, Bautino, and Kuryk.
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, fresh from meetings in Islamabad as a guest of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has met with senior Taliban officials in Kabul in a surprise visit. During his meetings at the OIC, Wang said that China was investing US$400 billion in Muslim countries, while he discussed relations with the[…..]
The member-states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are actively considering the issue of obtaining observer status by Armenia and Azerbaijan, SCO Secretary General Zhang Ming has said.
The OIC bloc includes 57 states over four continents and has a collective population of 1.9 billion China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi has been attending the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers meetings in Islamabad, stating that China is investing US$400 billion in over 600 BRI projects across the Muslim world. The OIC is[…..]
Russia avoiding southern route connects Uzbekistan to Georgia and the EU via Turkmenistan The Georgian National Statistics Office (Geostat) has stated that the trade turnover between Georgia and Uzbekistan from January through February 2022 totaled US$22.2 million – an increase of 88.1 percent, compared to US$11.8 million over the same period of 2021. The trend is significant[…..]