Agreement reached on some points in convention on Caspian Sea status

The Caspian Sea states have agreed on six points of the draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea after two days of talks in Baku at the level of the working group, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Iran, Ibrahim Ragimpur, said.The Caspian Sea states have reached an agreement on some controversial points in the draft convention.

"During the negotiations held on March 4-5, broad discussions were held on the paragraphs of the convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea and the Astrakhan Declaration of the heads of Caspian Sea countries. The issues related to the environmental problems, use of the water of the Caspian Sea are among the agreed points," Azerbaijan’s Deputy Foreign Minister Khalaf Khalafov said following the 39th meeting of the working group on determining the legal status of the Caspian Sea at the level of deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea countries, Trend reports.

"We hope that we will manage to complete the whole work on the convention in a short time and adopt it at the next summit in Astana," Khalafov said, stressing that the issues related to the legal status of the Caspian Sea and agreeing on all the fundamental issues related to it are the priority for all five littoral states.