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Despite the fact that the document directly concerns only environment , in this situation the signing of the Convention by all five states , gives rise to hope that the status of the Caspian Sea will be determined by diplomatic means exclusively without resort to force . The signing of a gas agreement between Turkmenistan and Ukraine , which was on the Summit agenda , has been postponed until October , and the second session of the joint Turkmen-Russian commission on dual citizenship also appears unlikely to meet as scheduled this month . Independent sources in the Dashoguz velayat offered rare glimpses this week of the extreme measures some local authorities take in Turkmenistan to insure that nation-wide campaigns , such as the cotton harvest or last week 's Independence Day celebration , conform to government expectations . Most people have forgotten about the air verification mission and all that we did with the involvement of airpower in the fall of 1998 . Unfortunately , back in the mid-1990s , we had a bit of a parts holiday . Freimut Duve took the occasion of his departure as the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe 's Representative on Freedom of the Media to publicly criticize Turkmenistan 's repression of free media as the worst in the former Soviet countries .