Turkmenistan’s ambassador to Georgia, Dovletmyrat Seyitmammedov, met Georgian deputy economy minister Tamar Ioseliani and Georgian Railway director general Lasha Abashidze in Tbilisi on 10 June. The two sides discussed expanding bilateral trade and investment and the legal framework for business, focusing on transit through Georgia’s Black Sea ports such as Poti and onward links across the Caspian via Azerbaijan.
The meeting follows a March visit to Georgia by a Turkmen deputy prime minister. It is modest in itself, and part of a slow pattern: Turkmenistan, long the most inward-looking Caspian state, edging toward the trans-Caspian routes that feed the Middle Corridor to Europe.