On the Eve of the V Caspian Summit in Astana
20.09.2016-26.09.2016 • No: 82 ON THE EVE OF THE V CASPIAN SUMMIT IN ASTANA Current geopolitical situation in the Caspian Caspian states’ Deputy Ministers of Foreign Caspian Five could manage to revert to the region clearly demonstrates the necessity for Affairs held in Baku in February 2003. issue only in the four-year period, in particu- searching a mutually acceptable solution Nevertheless, it took the littoral states 5 years lar, during the IV Caspian Summit held in regarding both establishment of the new legal to arrange the II Caspian Summit in Tehran on Astrakhan on September 29, 2014. The issue status and determination of the regime of use October 16, 2007. This time, the discussion was resolved by adopting a 19-point final of the Caspian Sea. For more than two dec- on prospects for multilateral cooperation and communique. According to this communique, ades, the littoral countries have been trying to the legal status of the Caspian Sea was held in the littoral countries would extend their adopt a five-party document regulating legal a constructive atmosphere. As a result, the national sovereignty out 15 nautical miles off obligations for the parties in maintaining parties adopted a 25-point joint declaration, their respective coasts, with exclusive fishing rights to use waters above the seabed, the which touched upon several issues such as in 10 nautical mile areas. Besides, at the end seabed, the subsoil, and the airspace above the navigation, transportation, security, etc. The of the Summit, the Agreement on the conser- Caspian Sea. Improved political dialog among parties unanimously agreed that the littoral vation and rational use of marine biological the regional states is one of the crucial pre- states would neither use their armed forces resources, the Agreement on cooperation in conditions for the successful implementation against each other nor allow any other state to the field of prevention and liquidation of of normative regulations.
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