Caspian Sea status conference kicks off in Iran
The national conference that aims to discuss the legal status of
the Caspian Sea has kicked off in Iran Mazandaran province's
Beshahr county, Trend news agency reported referring to Fars
agency.
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, Chairman of Majlis
National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin
Boroujerdi, and other members of the government and parliament are
participating in the conference.
The littoral states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan
and Iran) 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 in order to
exercise sovereign rights for subsoil use.
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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