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Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan hold important trilateral meeting
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Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan hold important trilateral meeting

23 August 2025
Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Uzbekistan held important trilateral meetings in the Turkmen city of Turkmenbashi on Friday, 22 August. Joint development of deposits on the Caspian shelf and cooperation in the field of energy exports, including renewable sources, were discussed. The talks came in the framework of the visit to Turkmenistan of President Ilham Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President Shovkat Mirzizoyev of  Uzbekistan who were hosted by the Chairman of the Halk Maslahaty (Senate) of Turkmenistan, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, who is a former president and the father of the current president, Serdar Berdimuhamedov. Azerbaijani media noted that during the meeting Uzbekistan hailed a scheme to export green electricity to Europe as promising, while Turkmen officials signaled a new openness to ideas long discussed in Brussels and Ankara, to build a Trans-Caspian gas pipeline, a project that has been under discussion for more than 30 years.

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Azerbaijan condemns proposed Presidential elections in the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic scheduled for 19 July.
Azerbaijan condemns proposed Presidential elections in the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic scheduled for 19 July.
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Azerbaijan condemns proposed Presidential elections in the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic scheduled for 19 July.

30 March 2012
Spokesperson for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry describes the elections for President of the self declared Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, scheduled for 19 July, as an Armenian provocation.
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Monitoring finds no breaking of ceasefire regime at the line of contact between armed forces of Nagornyy Karabakh and Azerbaijan
Monitoring finds no breaking of ceasefire regime at the line of contact between armed forces of Nagornyy Karabakh and Azerbaijan
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Monitoring finds no breaking of ceasefire regime at the line of contact between armed forces of Nagornyy Karabakh and Azerbaijan

29 March 2012
According to the arrangement with the NKR authorities, on 29 March the OSCE mission held a regular monitoring at the line of contact between the armed forces of the NKR and Azerbaijan in the Martuni direction not far from Kuropatkino village.
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27 March 2012
Complaining to Obama about OSCE MG, Erdogan once again tried to squeeze Turkey into the OSCE MG
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