The meeting of the Presidents of Turkmenistan Serdar Berdimuhamedov, Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Turkey Tayyip Erdogan will take place on December 13-14 in the National Tourist Zone "Avaza" on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea (the city of Turkmenbashi).

The corresponding resolution was signed by Berdymukhamedov.

Earlier, the speaker of the Turkish parliament, Mustafa Shentop, during a visit to Ashgabat, expressed Turkey's readiness to supply Turkmen gas to Europe in transit. In turn, Erdogan announced plans to discuss the creation of a gas hub at a meeting with Aliyev and Berdimuhamedov.

The trilateral summit has been postponed since 2015 for various reasons. The last time the parties agreed to meet in August 2021 on the Turkmen coast of the Caspian Sea, but the summit was postponed at Erdogan's request due to large-scale fires in Turkey.

“One of the most pressing issues that Erdogan intends to discuss with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan will be the creation of a large gas hub in Turkey, through which Russia could move gas transit from the "Northern Streams" to the Black Sea region and Turkey,” Vestnik kavkaza comments on the summit. - This initiative was put forward by Russian President Vladimir Putin in October. By the end of the year, the parties intend to determine the roadmap, the start of work on the Project2 is planned at the beginning of next year."

The other day in Ankara, Erdogan and Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov discussed preparations for the upcoming summit. But, since the meeting was closed to the press, there are few details. And Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, after talks with his Turkmen counterpart, announced the visit of Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov to Turkey early next year.

Today it became known that Bayramov will pay a working visit to Moscow on December 5, where he will meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. In addition, it is reported that Turkmen Foreign Minister Rashid Meredov will arrive in Moscow on December 6 to participate in a meeting of the intergovernmental Russian-Turkmen commission on economic cooperation, as well as to hold talks with Lavrov.

Earlier, Vagit Alekperov, a member of the bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, said that Russian oil and gas companies can get an opportunity to develop in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan as "friendly countries". After the disagreements between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on the exploration and development of the hydrocarbon resources of the Dostlug field were settled in 2021, the Russian company LUKOIL expressed interest in becoming the operator of this gas project in the Caspian Sea.