Working group on Caspian Sea to meet in Baku
By Nazrin Gadimova
A next meeting of the Special Working Group on the Caspian legal status will be held in Baku on September 12-13 at the level of deputy foreign ministers, Azerbaijani Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov told journalists on August 30.
The meeting will continue discussions over the draft Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea.
According to Khalafov, the next summit on the Caspian Sea will be held in Russia, while the date of the event is yet to be scheduled.
"Russia thinks that it is necessary to do some serious work to reach certain agreements, and only then to assign the summit," Khalafov said.
The five Caspian littoral states signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea in November 2003.
In July 1998, Russia and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the
delimitation of the northern part of the Caspian Sea. On Nov. 29,
2001 and Feb. 27, 2003, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan signed an
agreement on the delimitation of the Caspian Sea.
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement on the
delimitation of adjacent sections of the Caspian Sea on May 14,
2003.
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