On July 13, in the capital city of Astana, Kazakhstan hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the five Caspian littoral states. The officials gathered to discuss a draft convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea and other issues related to multilateral cooperation in the region (APA, July 13). Such negotiations have now gone on for nearly two decades, but have yet to produce a solution agreeable to all five states. This time, all the parties once more endorsed the importance of a negotiated delineation of the Caspian, and they agreed to hold the fifth meeting of …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation