Azerbaijan, Baku, April 17 / Trend, T.Jafarov /
Date of the 32nd meeting of the Caspian Sea littoral states' Working Group on determination of the legal status of the sea will be held in Tehran on April 23-24, ISNA Agency quotes Iranian President's Special Envoy for the Caspian Issues Mohammad Mehdi Akhundzadeh as saying on Wednesday.
The littoral states (Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran) signed the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea in November 2003.
In July 1998, Russia and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on the delimitation of the northern part of the Caspian Sea in order to exercise sovereign rights for subsoil use.
On Nov. 29, 2001 and Feb. 27, 2003, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on the delimitation of the Caspian Sea.
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Russia signed an agreement on the delimitation of adjacent sections of the Caspian Sea on May 14, 2003.