Today the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergey Lavrov said that the military presence in the Caspian Sea of states outside the region is inadmissible.
"In today's environment it is essential to keep the Caspian region as a zone of peace, friendship and good neighborliness. Russia intends to continue to firmly abide by existing agreements to resolve all the fundamental issues of the Caspian region only within the framework of the"Five" (Russia , Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan , Azerbaijan and Iran), the members of which have exclusive sovereign rights over the sea and its resources", Trend quotes him.
He also added that these problems cannot be solved by "the attempts of some countries and organizations located far enough away from the Caspian Sea to impose their own interests, their own line on the Caspian states or to try to provoke conflicts between us".
