Foreign Brief - Foreign ministers of the Caspian Seas five littoral statesRussia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistanwill meet in the Kazakh capital today to discuss the management of oil and gas resources. Todays meeting follows a landmark agreement reached in December among the five countries to cooperate on managing and exploiting the ...

IRNA - The first meeting of Supreme Working Group of the Caspian Sea littoral states convenes with the focus on determining the baseline and identifying the maritime boundaries of each of the five countries of the Caspian Sea. Having said that on Tuesday, head of Iranian delegation and the Director General of the Office for the Coordination of Bilateral ...

MNA High-level ministers of the five littoral states of the Caspian SeaRussia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are meeting in Baku to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Legal Status of the sea. A number of issues arising from the Convention, including the maritime borders of the five states will be discussed in the ...

MNA In international law, the concept of power is inevitably alongside with the principles of the law. The legal framework of the Caspian Sea and interests of the Islamic Republic of Iran were discussed in Kazakhstan's Aktao Agreement. In other words, since there is no judiciary reference in the international judiciary conflicts, the ...

Al-Monitor | Hamidreza Azizi: The Kazakh coastal city of Aktau hosted Aug. 12 the fifth summit of the five Caspian littoral states Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. The presidents of the five countries signed a landmark convention on the legal status of the Caspian, ending 21 years of disagreements ...

IRNA - A senior Iranian lawmaker said Foreign Ministry experts are to attend a meeting with MPs soon to answer their questions about the newly-signed Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea. Following Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifs presence at the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) on August 20, the National Security and Foreign Policy ...

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IFP - The Iranian Foreign Ministry says it guarantees the countrys share of the Caspian Sea has not been reduced at all based on the Convention recently signed on the legal regime of the Caspian Sea by the leaders of Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, and Azerbaijan in Aktau. What follows are seven questions and answers released by the ...

Al-Monitor - On Aug. 12, the Caspian Sea littoral states Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan signed what has been described as a historic accord on the legal status of the Caspian Sea. Controversy over the details of the convention has not subsided, however, and the issue remains the talk of the town in Tehran. On Aug. 15, pro-...

Sputnik| Anastasia Dmitrieva: The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea will facilitate Tehrans energy cooperation with Ashgabat and Astana and help export Iranian oil and gas products after the reinstatement of US sanctions, experts told Sputnik. The status ofthe oil-and-gas-rich Caspian Sea was regulated byagreements reached ...

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IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif is to be present at the National Security and Foreign Policy of Majlis (Iranian Parliament) on Monday to detail the Convention of Caspian Sea legal status and Kazakhstan summit of the Caspian littoral countries. Iran, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan presidents signed an agreement ...

IRNA - Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says Iran believes that it should own 20 percent of the Caspian Sea resources and the issue of an 11-percent share originates from an illusory line related to the former regime of Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran has never accepted such an illusory line, Zarif said in a TV program, adding that the idea ...

MNA Professor of political science says although the text of the Caspian Sea Treaty signed on August 12, 2018 in Kazakhstan does not define the share of each of the littoral states, Iran has to be very careful in future negotiations. Five Caspian Sea littoral states signed Caspian Sea Treaty on August 12, 2018 in Kazakhstan. The agreement ...

RT - It took more than 20 years for littoral states of the Caspian Sea to reach an agreement that would lay the legal foundations for the full utilization of the regions resources. The Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau, Kazakhstan, brought the long-sought breakthrough after leaders of Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Iran signed theConvention on ...

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Tasnim Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif dismissed claims that Tehran has ceded a significant part of its territorial rights to the Caspian Sea in a recent treaty it signed with four other littoral states, saying that Tehran has not retreated from its stance on the issue. Speaking to the Persian-language news website Alef, Zarif vehemently ...

MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani asserted that the Islamic Republic has received special privileges based on the Convention on Caspian Sea legal status. Speaking in the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Hassan Rouhani expressed happiness over the improvement of security in the region compared to past years, saying this year, we are witnessing more ...

TASS - Deputy foreign ministers of the Caspian Sea states are planning to hold consultations in Azerbaijan in fall of this year in order to discuss the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, Kazakhstans Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov told journalists on Tuesday. "As mandated by the heads of state, and according to the agreements ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, August 15, 2018, and picked headlines from 12 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Newspapers today widely covered the ambiguities regarding the division of the Caspian Sea and Irans share of the huge ...