FEB. 16 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Underlining the growing importance of Turkmenistan as a regional gas exporter, the president of the UAE, Shaikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, flew to Ashgabat for talks with Turkmen president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov. Media reported that the two leaders agreed to increase cooperation.
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FEB. 12 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The Uzbek authorities have unveiled a plan to build a 130km railway line over a mountain pass between Tashkent and their cities in the Ferghana Valley that will cut out the Soviet-built route through Tajikistan, media reported. Uzbekistan and Tajikistan have an increasingly fractious relationship.
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FEB. 13 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Turkmen president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov signed a deal with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovich, to resume gas exports to Ukraine. Ukraine had imported gas from Turkmenistan until a few years ago when it switched to Russia. Now it wants to diversify its imports and include Turkmen gas.
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FEB. 13 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Turkmen president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov signed a deal with his visiting Ukrainian counterpart, Viktor Yanukovich, to resume gas exports to Ukraine. Ukraine had imported gas from Turkmenistan until a few years ago when it switched to Russia. Now it wants to diversify its imports and include Turkmen gas.
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FEB. 3 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kazakh officials confirmed that the next round of talks between Iran and the group of six — the US, Russia, the UK, France, China and the EU — over the Iranian nuclear programme will take place in Almaty on Feb. 26. The decision to hold the talks in Kazakhstan is a major diplomatic victory for Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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FEB. 3 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Kazakh officials confirmed that the next round of talks between Iran and the group of six — the US, Russia, the UK, France, China and the EU — over the Iranian nuclear programme will take place in Almaty on Feb. 26. The decision to hold the talks in Kazakhstan is a major diplomatic victory for Kazakh president Nursultan Nazarbayev.
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JAN. 28 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – The foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and Armenia met in Paris to discuss a solution to their dispute over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. While little substantial progress was made at the one-day meeting, foreign mediators consider getting Azerbaijan and Armenia to sit across a table as positive.
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JAN. 19 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – It may, at times, feel slow, but Turkmen president Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov is opening up Turkmenistan. Media reported that he has instructed one of his ministers to study entry into the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for Turkmenistan, which has a reputation for being one of the most closed and repressive countries in the world.
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JAN. 19 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Armenia and Iran continued to move closer together, at least economically, after they announced a joint economic zone, media reported. The proposed economic zone would lie around their border area. Surrounded by arch-enemies Azerbaijan and Turkey, Armenia has been looking for friendly neighbours.
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JAN. 24 2013 (The Conway Bulletin) – Azerbaijan has issued an official protest note to Armenia after it emerged that dozens of ethnic Armenians who had fled a civil war in Syria were resettling in the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, media reported. An estimated 6,000 ethnic Armenians who had been living mainly in Aleppo have fled to Yerevan.
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(News report from Issue No. 121, published on Jan. 25 2013)