Turkmenistan fails to renew gas export deal with Russia

摘要

Negotiations between Turkmenistan and Russia on renewing a gas export deal have failed, with Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev and his Turkmen counterpart Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov halting negotiations without fixing a further date for resuming talks.The meeting between Medvedev and Berdymukhamedov was meant to generate a breakthrough and to mend political ties between the two countries. But negotiations, held in the in the Caspian Sea port of Turkmenbashi, ended without reaching an agreement.