Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 31 / Trend A.Huseynbala /
Head of the Azerbaijan-Turkmenistan parliamentary working group believes the Caspian littoral countries should seek to demilitarize the Caspian Sea.
Usually, the officials of the Caspian littoral countries states on the demilitarization of the Caspian Sea. In this regard, it will be better to demilitarize the Caspian Sea, Head of the Azerbaijani parliamentary Azerbaijani-Turkmen parliamentary working group, Astan Shahverdiyev told trend News.
Turkmenistan to quickly create a naval base of the Defense Ministry and border guards at the Caspian Sea, said on Sunday at the enlarged meeting of the State Security Council of Turkmenistan President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, RIA Novosti reported.
Speaking at an expanded Security Council meeting, the President stressed that Turkmenistan, along with land borders also has a long maritime border, which must be carefully guarded, Turkmen television reported.
"On my instructions, special work is currently carried out to strengthen our maritime borders and for the protection of the Caspian coast, related to our state, from foreign attacks," Berdimuhamedov said. He said he would be an effective system of locating and optical monitoring of the marine waters.
According to Shahverdiyev, Turkmenistan is the sovereign country and the establishment of the naval base on the Caspian Sea is its own business. "However, I think that Turkmenistan seeks to evolve a problem to the Caspian littoral counties with this," Shahverdiyev added.
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