IRNA – The 5th Caspian Summit ended in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Sunday.


Heads of the five Caspian Sea littoral states signed the legal regime convention of the sea on Sunday.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attended the summit and held separate bilateral meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev.

Leaders of the five littoral states signed a joint statement in which they called the Caspian Sea as the Sea of peace and solidarity.

The Caspian Sea littoral states ministerial meeting was held on August 11 with the participation of foreign ministers of its member-states (Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan).

The previous meeting of the foreign ministers was held in Moscow on December 4-5, 2017.