Turkmenistan, Ashgabat, Feb. 14 / Trend , E.Hasanov /
Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov and Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad opened negotiations on international challenges, including the legal status of the Caspian Sea, the official Turkmen source said.
Today the sides will review the perspectives of cooperation in the commercial and economic, transport and fuel and energy spheres. The intergovernmental documents will be inked.
Bedimuhamedov pays two day visit to Teheran. Turkmenistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia border with the Caspian Sea, which is rich of hydrocarbons and biological resources.
The necessity to define the legal status of the reservoir appeared after the collapse of the SSSR and increasing the number of littoral Caspian Sea countries from two to five. Presently, the littoral countries agreed that the Convention can be accepted through consensus. The legal regime prescribed by the Soviet-Iranian agreements still effective in the Caspian Sea as far as a new status is achieved.
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