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breach of extradition laws to intimidate and Founded in 2001, Motrex creates digital natural gas exports to China.
blackmail suspects into returning home systems for cars and trains. The company "Today, we are working on increasing the
to China to face charges, according to has offices in Australia, Brazil, the US, UAE, supply of Turkmen natural gas considering
allegations in a new report from the group. Turkey, China and other countries. Chinese economy's growing demand and
There are said to be at least 54 offices At the beginning of the year, Turkmenistan's resources. We are ready to
set up by Chinese regional police forces on Uzbekistan’s energy ministry announced discuss in detail the possibility of building a
five continents. The overseas police service the development of the country's first fourth pipeline route from Turkmenistan to
centres take their name from the police state programme for the creation of a China," Berdimuhamedov was reported by
emergency telephone number in China, network of EV charging stations. They are local media as saying on October 3.
110. primarily planned for installation in densely Turkmen President Serdar
Beijing says the centres are there to help populated areas. Berdimuhamedov and Chinese President
Chinese diaspora and tourists with everyday Private investors, such as Megawatt Xi Jinping discussed in mid-September
problems. Motors, Makro and TokBor are engaged cooperation in energy and other areas on
The Safeguard Defenders investigation in EV infrastructure development in the sidelines of the 22nd meeting of the
concludes that the stations form part of an Uzbekistan. In March of this year, Megawatt Council of Heads of State of the Shanghai
expanding and complex surveillance and Motors agreed with the State Committee Cooperation Organization (SCO).
monitoring network, designed to enable of Ecology to install EV charging stations President Xi Jinping highlighted that “the
the Chinese Communist Party to reach far "every 100 km".. sides are interested in increasing the scale
beyond its borders. of cooperation between the countries in the
"These operations eschew official bilateral areas of natural gas [production] and non-
police and judicial cooperation and violate Turkmenistan once more commodities”.
the international rule of law and may violate Turkmen president added that "the
the territorial integrity of third countries discussing ambitions to double current Turkmen-Chinese partnership has
involved in setting up a parallel policing seen development in such strategic areas
mechanism using illegal methods," the gas exports to China as trade, energy complex and transport
report states. - namely cross-border cargo transport
Turkmenistan is again referring to apparent - as well as in the areas of culture and
plans to approximately double its natural education."
Korea's Motrex to build EV gas exports to China, which would mean footprint in Turkmenistan in recent
China has extended its economic
increasing supplies to around 65bn cubic
charging stations in Uzbekistan metres (bcm) annually. years, and it is now strongly involved in
Turkmen news site Orient.tm has
the Central Asian country's natural gas
South Korea’s Motrex is set to help reported on the plans. industry. Chinese firms are heavily involved
Uzbekistan expand its currently low The ambitions were discussed after in Turkmenistan's petroleum and energy
number of charging stations for electric Turkmenistan and China agreed to develop complex.
vehicles (EVs). the second stage of the Galkynysh gas The Galkynysh gas deposit said to be one
Uzbekistan's innovation ministry field. No time-scale on the plans has been of the largest in the world with a potential
announced the signing of a corresponding provided. storage capacity of more than 27mn
agreement by representatives of the Turkmenistan supplied 34 bcm of gas cubic meters. China receives gas from the
Australian division of Motrex and Uzbek to China in 2021, making it the largest Galkynysh field through the Central Asia-
technopark Yashnabad. The signing supplier of gas to the Chinese market. China pipeline. The pipeline is planned to
ceremony took place on October 19 at the Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, transport 40bn cubic meters of gas per year,
InnoWeek 2022 exhibition. former president and present speaker with a maximum capacity of 55bn cubic
The company plans to introduce $2.5mn of the Turkmen parliament's upper meters.
worth of technologies for the production of chamber, disclosed in early October that
charging stations for EVs. Turkmenistan was trying to boost its

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