MNA � Foreign Ministry Spokesman has dismissed reports and media hype on any talks about seabed boundary delimitation and littoral states� share of the Caspian Sea in the convention set to be signed at Aktau summit today.

�There is no such thing as dividing the Caspian Sea among the littoral states, or determining the seabed and subsoil boundaries in the Convention,� said Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi in a statement on Sunday.

His comment comes as heads of the five Caspian Sea littoral states � Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan � have convened in the Kazakh city of Aktau to sign a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, the world�s largest enclosed body of water contested between the five countries.

Ghasemi went on to add, �the Caspian coastal lines have certain complexities [dealing with which] requires more expert negotiations. We are hopeful that in future each of the five littoral states will reach satisfactory results through understanding and consensus.�

The Iranian diplomat further maintained that the convention excludes the military and non-military presence of any outside country, or the establishment of any military base in the Caspian Sea.

�The five states will not allow other countries to use their sea, soil or airspace to launch attacks on any of the Caspian Sea littoral states,� Ghasemi stressed.