MENAFN - AzerNews - The next meeting of the High-Level Working Group on the Caspian Sea (HLWG) will be held in July 2019 in Iran, Trend reports referring to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Azerbaijan. This is stated in the communiqu of the second meeting of the working group, which was held on April 16-17, 2019 in Kazakhstan's capital city Nur-...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IRNA The interests of Iran have been respected in the convention of legal status of the Caspian Sea and Iran's share won't be traded, said the speaker of the National Security and Foreign Policy committee of Majlis (Iranian Parliament) on Wednesday. 'Arguments made against the convention of legal status of the Caspian Sea are just the result of some ...

Iranian Diplomacy | Mahdokht Pazoki: Officials are sanguine about the outcome of the Caspian Sea summit going on in Kazakhstan; the five countries bordering the sea will agree to choose consensus as the basis of their decisions on their shared issues. For many people, the first thing conjured up when speaking about the Caspian Sea may not be its ...

Alwaght - Meeting in the Kazakh port city of Aqtau, the presidents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan signed on Sunday a new convention on the legal status of Caspian Sea, putting an end to over 20 years of talks on the resource-rich sea. Since 1991, the year of the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the number of the littoral ...

MNA Iranian Parliament Research Center (IPRC) Head Kazem Jalali said that Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea should be submitted to the Parliament in the form of bylaw for final approval, so that the Center is tasked with conducting expert-level studies on this issue. The issue of division of water demarcation is not going ...

IRNA The United Nations Secretary General Antnio Guterres in a statement on Monday welcomed signing the landmark convention on the Caspian Sea Legal Regime. 'The Secretary-General welcomes the signing of the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea by Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan,' reads the statement appeared on ...

IRNA - Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi rejected as baseless the claims raised by a Russian national by the name of Rajab Safarov about the Caspian Sea. Safarov has never been a member of any Russian negotiating team on the Caspian Sea and his claims are baseless and not worth being paid attention, Qasemi said Monday night. No doubt that ...

The Wall Street Journal | Ann M. Simmons andBenoit Faucon: Leaders of five Caspian Sea nations signed an agreement that aims to settle a longstanding dispute over ownership of oil and gas reserves on the landlocked body of water. Caspian reserves as of 2012 were estimated at 48 billion barrels of oil and 292 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,...

The Guardian | Phoebe Greenwood: Convention seen as vital to break Irans sense of economic isolation after US sanctions Vladimir Putinmet the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, on Sunday at the close of a dramatic week in which each had been threatened with punishing economic sanctions by the US. But they were not meeting to publicly agree a ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Monday, August 13, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The top story in all papers today was the landmark Convention signed by Iran, Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan ...