... Gulf, the markets of the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, which have become an important source of foreign exchange earnings for Turkmenistan. There are even more ambitious projects, such as plans to link the North-South Transport Corridor from Kazakhstan through Turkmenistan to Iran’s Golestan Province via the Iranian railway network, opening the way to the ports of the Persian Gulf. In future, this facility is expected to transport up to
12 million tons of cargo
annually.
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... divide not only the shelf but also the shipping area into sovereign sectors and to extract oil on the “sovereign” shelf without worrying about the consequences for this inland water space, which is extremely sensitive to chemical pollution. Kazakhstan was inclined to divide only the shelf. Russia, Turkmenia and Iran originally called for joint use of the shelf and the whole sea.
A division of the Caspian shelf in the way that Azerbaijan seeks is not just connected with the oil factor. None ...
... democracy, you say. Maybe it is not what Eurasian integration needs. In fact, there is even no such a thing as Eurasian Union. First and foremost, it should come into being. Besides, looking at the domestic institutional designs of Russia, Belarus und Kazakhstan one can come to conclusion that democracy is not what the leaders of these three states concerned with. There is therefore no hope that EAU would be any more democratic than European Union.
There is, however, one thing worth an experiment ...
... mechanism for imposing a moratorium on catching sturgeon.
According to official statements, the negotiations only made headway on environmental issues (such as conserving the sturgeon population). In addition, the “Caspian Five” (Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan) reaffirmed the principle of Caspian states’ non-interference in regional affairs.
As far as I can gather, no progress has been achieved on the main problem, i.e. agreeing spheres of influence. And without ...
... Uzbekistan left CSTO, doesn’t have any plans in joining Customs Union and tries to dominate regional competition. Other countries in the region are ruled out by the the very same parameters but with a different modulus sign. Russia is dealing with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, providing the two latter with aid and debt forgiveness. At the same time Russia is conducting a very equivocal migration policy concerning labor migrants from Central Asia, this and dubious perspectives of joining ...
... the same leaders for more than 20 years, one faced its president’s death and transition from one “cult of personality” to another. As remaining eternal leaders age, more and more rumors about their successors rise from the media.
Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan face a situation when their leaders are not young - Nursultan Nazarbaev was born in 1940, Islam Karimov - in 1938, both of them are past over their 70’s. Both of them in the past declined the idea of staying in power until ...
... financial sector, the European sovereign debt situation and the Cypriot banking crisis have experts of all kinds riveted to financial issues, while the new Grand Game in Asia is attracting attention from all over. A relatively mature banking sector in Kazakhstan, attempts to overcome uncertainty in Kyrgyzstan and isolationism in Turkmenistan, the obvious dependence of credit institutions in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan on administrative interference – these are part of the diverse set of characteristics ...
... gas transportation system is out of the question because Gazprom would not open its infrastructure to other suppliers. Nagorno-Karabakh and the
systemic modernization of the armed forces
will remain hot topics in Baku.
During the past several years,
Kazakhstan's
key political issue has been the succession of power. It is its first president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, who has personally ensured the republic's progressive development and political stability over more than 20 years. Experts see two scenarios ...
... finally met “borders” as one of the parameters which define the State.
Today there is a big unresolved issue in the whole region - delimitation and demarcation is still unfinished. The only state that finished this process is Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan still has some arguable areas, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have a lot of borders section to discuss - mainly in Ferghana Valley. Additionally, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan have one more complex problems concerning territories ...
... report prepared by RAS Institute for Oriental Studies.
To this end, of particular importance seems the meeting between RIAC President Igor Ivanov, Director General Andrey Kortunov and Program Director Ivan Timofeyev with Bulat Sultanov, Director of Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan and Viktor Temirbayev and Nurlan Al’kenov, officers of Kazakh Embassy to Moscow.
The parties have discussed bilateral relations, possible establishment of multilateral ...
