Baku / 17.07.18 / Turan: The summit of the heads of the Caspian countries will be held in Aktau, Kazakhstan on August 12, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov stated. According to the Minister, all the states confirmed their participation through diplomatic channels.
"Currently, Foreign Ministries of the five Caspian states, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan, are actively working to prepare for the fifth Caspian summit, which is scheduled for August 12 in Aktau," Abdrakhmanov told journalists, RIA Novosti reported.
At the summit, the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea will be signed. Over this document, representatives of the five countries have worked for more than 20 years.
On June 21, the Russian government approved the draft Convention on the legal status of the Caspian. According to the document, the Caspian states will be able to lay pipelines on the seabed without obtaining the approval of the entire "five", but only on the basis of the agreements of the countries whose sectors the pipeline should pass through. -06D-
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