BAKU, Azerbaijan, December 5. The first meeting on Caspian ecology issues will take place in Baku, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said during a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian states in Moscow, Trend reports.
"Following nine years of consultations at the ministerial meeting on environmental affairs held in September in Geneva, good agreements were reached on the placement of the secretariat of the Tehran Convention," he noted.
"For direct and continuous management of environmental issues in the Caspian Sea, the Tehran Convention secretariat needs to be relocated to Caspian basin countries," the minister pointed out.
The minister emphasized that all five Caspian countries face numerous environmental threats, requiring collective cooperation to address them.
"The threat of a decrease in the water level of the Caspian Sea is caused by various factors, including climate change and the construction of various infrastructure projects. The water recession has had a destructive impact on the port system, shipping, ecosystems, aquaculture life, and has led to increased pollution in coastal areas," Amir-Abdollahian added.
The meeting of the foreign ministers of the Caspian states, chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is also attended by his counterparts from Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, and Turkmenistan.
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