Brussels, 21/04/2011 (Agence Europe) - Turkmenistan has an “abysmal” human rights record and the EU should engage with it only if it makes concrete progress in this area. So said the European Parliament (EP) foreign affairs committee on Wednesday 20 April, ahead of the visit to Turkmenistan by an EP delegation next week to ascertain whether Parliament should give its agreement, in June, to an EU Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA).
Farid Tukhbatullin, who leads the Vienna-based...