Overview
- Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif attended Turkmenistan’s International Forum on Peace and Trust marking 30 years of the country’s permanent neutrality.
- Sharif met President Serdar Berdimuhamedov and offered Turkmenistan commercial access to Karachi and Gwadar to widen its maritime trade routes.
- Pakistan highlighted energy, transport and trade cooperation and thanked Turkmen authorities for helping evacuate Pakistani nationals from Iran earlier this year.
- A widely shared video shows Sharif waiting about 40 minutes for a scheduled meeting with Vladimir Putin, briefly entering Putin’s talks with Recep Tayyip Erdogan and leaving roughly 10 minutes later.
- Turkey’s presidency said Erdogan urged Putin to consider a limited ceasefire focused on protecting energy facilities and ports during their discussion at the forum.