More and more countries are getting involved in a unique South Gas Corridor (SGC) project that will enable Europe to strongly improve its energy security.

Russia does not plan to lay trunk pipelines along the bottom of the Caspian Sea, the Russian Foreign Ministry's ambassador-at-large Igor Bratchikov

Turkmenistan is taking consistent steps to consolidate common efforts in addressing the issues of the Caspian Sea, seeking to promote the development of interstate trade and economic relations, the optimal realization of the impressive diverse potential of the strategic Caspian region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif described the existing relations between Tehran and Baku as “very good”, adding that the two nations are working together in close cooperation to benefit from natural resources of the Caspian Sea.

With the signing of the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, all the Caspian-littoral states (Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran) can engage in the extraction of oil and gas on the shelf of the Caspian Sea, being firmly convinced that nothing will undermine the existing agreements and conditions in the region

Kazakhstan will be able to state about the completion of the legal formalities for the boundaries, sovereign rights for subsoil use in the Caspian Sea.