Turkmenistan

2025 PAW, Arbitrator Selection, Central Asia, Code of Conduct, Independence and Impartiality, Investment Arbitration, ISDS, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mediation and Dispute Management, Paris Arbitration Week, Procedure, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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On Day 3 of the 2025 Paris Arbitration Week (“PAW”), Nyenrode University organized a comprehensive conference, hosted by Linklaters Paris, examining the future of investment arbitration in the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). The event featured a keynote address by Anna Joubin-Bret (UNCITRAL) and welcome remarks from Roland…

2023 in Review, Arbitration Act, Cryptocurrency, Expropriation, HK Arbitration Week, Hong Kong, Intellectual Property, Interim measures, ISDS, Japan, Korea, Kyrgyzstan, PRC, Renewable energy, Sovereign Immunity, Tajikistan, Technology, Third party funding, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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Introduction East and Central Asia sees further efforts to promote arbitration through legislative and regulatory developments. Domestic courts clarified issues fundamental to arbitration and the judicial enforcement of arbitral awards. Domestic legislative and judicial bodies and arbitral institutions continue to grapple with recent trends and come up with innovative solutions that reflect the unique experience…

Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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On the eve of this year’s Tashkent Law Spring Forum, ICC YAAF, together with My Lawyer Law Firm and Dentons LLP, coordinated an event hosted by the Tashkent office of Dentons on Arbitration Developments in Uzbekistan and other Central Asian States.  The event featured  insights by practitioners and stakeholders on the Central Asian market for…

Arbitration, Central Asia, Investment Arbitration, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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In recent years, international investment law and the investor-state dispute settlement (‘ISDS’) system have arguably reached their melting point, with an increasing number of participants having diverging interests and perspectives. Many of these issues have come to the surface through the discussions ongoing at UNCITRAL Working Group III. In this context, the experiences of the…

2022 in Review, Arbitration Act, HK Arbitration Week, Hong Kong, Interim measures, ISDS, Japan, Korea, Legislative amendment, Macau, New York Convention, PRC, Taiwan, Treaty, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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East and Central Asia made further strides to promote arbitration, including through legislative reforms and enhancement of judicial assistance, as well as the accession, ratification, and creation of treaties.  Some domestic courts clarified views on fundamental issues in arbitration.  On the user side, East and Central Asian parties continued to be active as both claimants…

CIS, New York Convention, Turkmenistan

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On 17 April 2022, the president of Turkmenistan signed a law on accession of Turkmenistan to the 1958 Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards (the “New York Convention” or “Convention”). The Government of Turkmenistan deposited the instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations on 4 May 2022. In…

Astana International Financial Centre, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan Law on Arbitration, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan

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Kazakhstan has been making concerted efforts to increase foreign investment and to reduce its dependency on extractive industries which have long dominated production. In 2015, when it was ranked 77th out of 190 countries for doing business, the then President introduced a “100 Concrete Steps” Plan to make the country one of the top 30…

Arbitration, Arbitration Proceedings, Enforcement, Enforcement of an arbitration clause, International arbitration, Set aside an arbitral award, Set aside an international arbitral award, Turkmenistan

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The specter of communism that was once lingering over the Europe has long faded away, and the alliance, one of the biggest socialist experiments in the history of mankind, that stood to safeguard and promote its ideals has failed. In 1991 out of the remains of the Soviet Union emerged five independent Central Asian states….