Turkmen call for UN pipeline pact

Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov listens during a Kremlin meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. President Vladimir Putin on Monday said Russia had increased natural gas shipments pumped along a Caspian Sea pipeline and that Moscow hoped to increase cooperation with the former Soviet Union's second-largest producer of gas, Turkmenistan. (AP Photo/ Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Pipeline call: from Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO

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By Wire services

 22 April 2008 07:44 GMT

Turkmenistan's President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has asked the United Nations to adopt a new convention guaranteeing pipeline security, state media has reported.



The Caspian nation, which relies on Russia for most of its gas exports, is keen to diversify its export pipeline routes and is looking into a number of options, including a proposed pipeline via Afghanistan, long stalled due to security concerns.

Turkmen state media reported that Berdymukhamedov discussed the security idea with visiting president of UN General Assembly Srgjan Kerim yesterday.

"Turkmenistan is launching active discussions on a UN convention on international pipeline security," the state-owned Neutral Turkmenistan newspaper reported today.

It gave no further details of the proposal and did not…

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