The agenda of the Caspian Summit in Aktau

Baku/09.08.18/Turan: The Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan in its press release reported on the agenda of the 5th Caspian Summit in Aktau on August 12. The agenda of the Fifth Caspian Summit, agreed by the five parties, contains three questions:

1. Legal status of the Caspian Sea.

2. Issues of cooperation in the Caspian (economics and transport, ecology and protection of bio-resources, security).

3. Regional and global international themes, the Foreign Ministry said.

At the end of the summit, it is planned to sign the main final document - the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, the project of which was finally agreed upon within the framework of the meeting of foreign ministers of the Caspian states on December 4-5, 2017 in Moscow.

During the summit, it is also planned to sign three agreements on cooperation in the field of transport, trade and economic cooperation, on the avoidance of incidents in the Caspian Sea, as well as the three protocols to the agreement on cooperation in the field of security in the Caspian Sea relating to combating organized crime, terrorism and interaction of border departments.

On August 11, the meeting of the foreign ministers of the five countries of the Caspian region will be held. The next day, the presidents of Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan will arrive at the summit. -02D-