The 45th meeting of Caspian Sea littoral countries has ended with signing of a statement which provisions the next meeting in Astana, Mehr news agency reports.
On Friday, deputy-FMs of all five countries including Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Republic of Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, signed the 45th statement about the legal status and regime of the Caspian Sea. Astana meeting in July will address the remaining issues over the legal status. Speculations indicates some level of progress in discussions of the regime.
The meeting was held in Foreign Ministry building in Moscow. Legal status and regime has been the major source of controversy for the years after 1991 and formation of three independent countries out of Soviet Socialist Republics which posed difficulties for the new definition of the legal regime.
