On May 6, Turkish, Azerbaijani and Russian representatives met in Ankara and issued a joint memorandum on significantly transforming the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK) railway project. The Georgian leadership made clear that it was dissatisfied with the trilateral proposal, which was signed ...
A major challenge for Central Asia’s oil and natural gas industry has always been how to transport petroleum products from the landlocked region to global markets. That issue resurfaced last week (March 6) in Uzbekistan, where a delay in building ...
By Trend Norway’s Equinor sold natural gas for around $26 billion in total in 2018, an increase of 29 percent from 2017, Trend reports citing the company. As more countries prepare for the energy transition, Equinor sees strong market ...
In 2018, the trade turnover between Azerbaijan and Germany increased by 61 percent compared to 2017, Azerbaijani Deputy Economy Minister Rufat Mammadov said at the eighth meeting of the Azerbaijani-German high-level working group in Baku. The deputy minister noted that relations ...
State Department official says strategy aimed at forcing Tehran to the negotiating table BY ASHISH KUMAR SEN From left: Brian Hook, the US special representative for Iran and senior policy advisor to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; the United Arab ...
Islamabad seeks yet another IMF bailout BY AAFREEN AFZAL Pakistan, faced with a mounting debt in part due to a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project with China, has turned to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for yet another bailout. The IMF, however, has ...
Oil and gas continue to inflame the conflict in Syria even though the Islamic State’s territory has shrunk, and the Syrian government has recovered control over portions of the country. In fact, local players and external actors battle for control ...
Publication: Eurasia Daily Monitor Volume: 15 Issue: 127 By: Ilgar Gurbanov The governments of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Iran and Turkmenistan gathered in the Kazakhstani port city of Aktau, on August 12, and signed the Convention on the Caspian Sea’s Legal ...
Ex-British PM and Italian interior minister will discuss plans to extend gas pipeline The Italian far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, will meet the former British prime minister Tony Blair in Rome to discuss controversial plans to extend a ...