Everyone should be hoping for a successful COP29 and supporting the Azerbaijani Chairmanship. Securing agreement on tackling climate change is too important an issue to be undermined by politics. 🌍🇦🇿🌍

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Delighted to moderate two panel sessions at Caspian Policy Center (CPC) Energy Security and Post-COP29 conference yesterday in London. A great chance to explore the opportunities and challenges for the Caspian region following COP29 in Baku last month.

Given that he was a trained ophthalmologist, you would have thought Assad would have seen the writing on the wall, right? 🤷‍♂️😅

Terrible to hear about this awful crash. My heart goes out to all those affected. 😢

Well said 👏👏 Russia needs to take responsibility.

Always good to meet up with former colleagues and friends!

Just been to the Panama Canal to see if the US has taken it over. Not yet 😅

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Novruz bayramınız mübarək!🌼🌿🌹🌸

How the EU lost its way in the South Caucasus. Will the new US Administration have a better map?

I was reading a book about the role of different fabrics - wool, cotton, silk - in Central Asia, and became intrigued in particular by cotton. This is the result 👇

Pleased to have had the opportunity to participate in this event. The Greater Caspian Region is at the centre of a number of global mega trends, and the Middle Corridor is offering opportunities for broader cooperation, both externally and regionally.

White Gold in Central Asia: A Blessing or A Curse? The Cotton Conundrum caspianpolicy.org/research/comme…

Have you ever heard of Heartland Theory? Keep reading….👇

.James Sharp writes about his recent trip to Karabakh: “In essence, to this observer the reconstruction and returns process seems to be moving from an initial “euphoric” stage to one of normalization.”caspianpolicy.org/research/azerb…

My latest article on the future prospects for Caspian gas supplies. TLDR: It’s intriguing!

Very happy to have participated in this conference.

Plenty of details still to be worked through, but also plenty of new opportunities for both countries. The two leaders should be applauded for taking this historic step. 👏👏 to 🇺🇸too. 🇮🇷and 🇷🇺hostility to the agreements show exactly why 🇦🇿and 🇦🇲 need to break free from them.