This December Ashgabat will host a meeting on the Caspian Sea legal status convention

Almaty. November 22. Silkroadnews – In the second half of December Ashgabat plans to organize another regular meeting of the working group in charge of developing a convention on the Caspian Sea legal status, Trend reports.

Delegations of foreign ministries of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan are expected to take part.

To remind, earlier, in October, Tehran hosted a meeting at the level of deputies of the foreign ministers of the Caspian states to discuss the issues of water management, navigation, transit and energy resources.

In November 2003 the coastal states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran) signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea.

In July 1998 Russia and Kazakhstan made the agreement on the delimitation of the northern part of the Caspian Sea to exercise sovereign rights for subsoil use; later, in May 2002, the protocol to the agreement was signed as well. On November 29, 2001, and February 27, 2003, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan signed the agreement on the delimitation of the Caspian seabed and the protocol thereto respectively.

On May 14, 2003, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia signed the agreement on the junction point of the lines delineating the adjacent sections of the Caspian Sea.