President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow of Turkmenistan

Addressing the second summit of the Caspian Sea Littoral States here in Tehran Tuesday morning, Berdimuhamedow expressed the hope that the summit would lead to palatable agreements, and underlined the need for the littoral states to adopt a new approach towards Caspian Sea issues.

With this new deal, Berdimuhamedow is continuing to keep his countrys options open on new routes to markets in China, Pakistan and Europe.

Without joining political alliances, we will proceed with new gas pipelines to carry our gas to China, and to Pakistan and India via Afghanistan and to Europe via the Caspian Sea, Berdimuhamedow said in remarks broadcast by Turkmen TV on 29 June.

created a special tourism zone on the Caspian Sea.

Excerpt from report by state-owned Turkmen TV Altyn Asyr channel on 28 October Today President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow received the head of the famous French company Bouygues, Martin Bouygues, the company's vice-president Olivier Bouygues, senior vice-president of Bouygues, Aldo Carbonaro, the regional director of the company, Charles Santer, and commercial director of the company for Central Asian countries, Aleksey Rechov.

subheadings have been inserted editorially: Berdimuhamedow has been prompted to fight the problem of drugs by a number of factors - drug trade and drug addiction's negative impact on the criminal situation in the country and citizens' health, as well as concerns about his own international prestige.

Heroin bonfires" "Heroin bonfires" have been alight in Turkmenistan since President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow came to power.

amounts of drugs seized in Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in 2007] Analysts think that Berdimuhamedow has been prompted to fight the problem of drugs by a number of factors - drug trade and drug addiction's negative impact on the criminal situation in the country and citizens' health, as well as concerns about both Turkmenistan's and his own international prestige.

This episode is also evidence that Berdimuhamedow is continuing to be a puppet of an unidentified person (or a group of people.

This week Berdimuhamedow said governments, banks, and companies of a number of countries have drawn up several new pipeline proposals, including Turkmenistan-China, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan, as well as Caspian and trans-Caspian.

Berdimuhamedow was welcomed at Tehran Mehrabad International Airport Tuesday morning by Caretaker of the Oil Ministry Gholam-Hossein Nozari.

Following the full military honors, a tete-a-tete meeting between Gul and Berdimuhamedow was held.

On the other hand, Berdimuhamedow said he believes friendship and brotherhood between Turkey and Turkmenistan will further improve.

Since his election, President BERDIMUHAMEDOW has sought to improve the health and education systems, ordered unification of the country's dual currency exchange rate, begun decreasing state subsidies for gasoline, signed an agreement to build a gas line to China, and created a special tourism zone on the Caspian Sea.

Turkey closely follows Turkmenistan's energy reforms Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow received Turkish Energy Natural Resources Minister Hilmi Guler on Tuesday.