Caspian legal status may be defined soon

The work to define the legal status of the Caspian Sea can be completed by the summit of the region's countries in Kazakhstan, the head of the Russian delegation to the multilateral talks on the Caspian Sea, Ambassador-at-Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Igor Bratchikov, said.

'We presume that the finalization of the convention for the summit in Kazakhstan is absolutely realistic,' Azeri Daily cited Bratchikov as saying.

According to him, before the summit the draft convention will be reviewed by foreign ministers of the five Caspian littoral states, who will gather for a meeting in Kazakhstan on July 12-13.