Legal status of Caspian Sea to be discussed in Ashgabat
By Trend
The next meeting of the ad hoc working group for drafting the
convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea is planned to be
held in Ashgabat in the second half of December, the Turkmen
government reported on November 21.
The delegations of foreign ministries of Azerbaijan, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan are expected to participate in
the meeting.
The previous meeting was held at the level of deputy foreign
ministers of the Caspian-littoral countries in Tehran in October.
The meeting mulled the water management, navigation, transit,
energy
resources.
The Caspian states - Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan
and Iran - signed a Framework Convention for the Protection of the
Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea in November 2003.
Russia and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the delimitation of
the northern part of the Caspian Sea in order to exercise sovereign
rights for subsoil use in July 1998. The two countries signed a
protocol to the agreement in May 2002.
Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on the delimitation
of the Caspian Sea and a protocol to it on Nov. 29, 2001 and Feb.
27, 2003, respectively.
Additionally, 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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