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Tehran hosted the first ministerial summit on transit cooperation between Iran and five Central Asian countries – Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan. The meeting was also attended by representatives of the leadership of the transport sector of Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran itself. On October 8, a preliminary meeting of the responsible persons of each of the parties was held, at which a joint document on regional transport convergence was agreed.

The head of the Trade Development Organization of Iran, Alireza Peymanpak, in her comments on the upcoming II Caspian Economic Forum, told about Iran's prospects to obtain a market with a capacity of 600-700 billion US dollars, if a free trade zone is formed in the Caspian region, TASS reports.

The importance of developing the potential of the Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway to further increase the transit traffic was noted by President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Iranian leader Ibrahim Raisi during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which was held in Samarkand.

Transport and logistics cooperation was one of the topics of the talks held on Wednesday between President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev and Iranian leader Ibrahim Raisi.

Taking into account the successful experience of swap deliveries of Turkmen gas to Azerbaijan through Iran, official Tehran is ready to expand the transit of the "blue fuel" from Turkmenistan to neighboring countries.

Experts and specialists from various sectors of the coastal countries of the Caspian Sea are constantly negotiating on the development and coordination of the projects of five-sided documents, and even during the outbreak of the pandemic, these meetings continued in a virtual format.

The seventh Caspian summit will take place at the agreed time in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is stated in the Communiqué of the VI Caspian Summit, held on Wednesday in Ashgabat.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdullahian stressed the importance of the agreement on direct baselines, speaking at a meeting of the foreign Ministers of the Caspian littoral states on Tuesday in Ashgabat.

The Foreign Ministers of Turkmenistan and Iran in a telephone conversation on Monday discussed preparations for the upcoming summit of the heads of the Caspian states in Ashgabat. Rashid Meredov and Hossein Amir Abdollahian also considered the implementation of bilateral agreements and some regional issues.

The first container train on the route Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran-Turkey, loaded with Kazakh sulfur, arrived in Tehran today. Just at this time, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev is here, whose visit to the Iranian capital takes place a few days after the visit of Turkmen President Serdar Berdimuhamedov.