Tashkent-Muscat transport corridor : The Foreign Ministers of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Oman and Iran this week met in Muscat to sign an MoU for the development of a transport corridor that would run from Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan to Iran and eventually Oman. The new trade route linking Central Asia to the Arabian Gulf would be a “turning point” in relations between the two regions, it was claimed in a joint statement released after the talks. AKIPress