“our region can, instead of competing to eliminate one another from the energy market, transform into a network of energy production, transmission, and exchange.”
He suggested a flexible “CIS plus Iran” mechanism for cooperation in transit, energy, trade, mining, investment, technology, water, environment, tourism, science, and culture. — Official addresses / Tasnim
➡️ Regarding Caspian security, Pezeshkian called for excluding extra-regional forces and destructive geopolitical competition, citing the attack on Yemen’s Hodeidah port during the US and Israel war against Yemen, and Ukraine’s armed attack on an Iranian commercial ship. He warned that attacks on coastal facilities, ports, ships, fuel reservoirs, and maritime infrastructure threaten regional peace and cause transboundary environmental harm; he demanded immediate condemnation by Caspian littoral states and accountability for perpetrators. On environmental cooperation, he stressed that “none of the coastal countries can save the Caspian alone,” as its waters, pollution, climate change, and falling water levels “do not recognize political borders.”
➡️ Iran’s foreign minister Araghchi stated the Iran-Russia-Azerbaijan trilateral meeting was convened at Moscow’s initiative, with several joint economic cooperation projects discussed and agreed.
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