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From: Elina Karakulova (ekarakulova@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Jul 17 2003 - 15:23:03 EDT
KAZAKHSTAN, TURKMENISTAN DRAFT AGREEMENT ON CASPIAN DIVISION
Two days of talks between Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan on the division of the Caspian seabed ended on 15 July with the two sides adopting a draft agreement laying out the dividing line between the two countries, Interfax-Kazakhstan and RIA-Novosti reported on 16 July, citing a press release from the Kazakh Foreign Ministry. The delegations also reportedly agreed that the next step in the process should be trilateral talks including Azerbaijan, talks which could produce an agreement on the exact delimitation of the three countries' shares of the seabed and the Caspian Sea's resources. Kazakhstan has already reached similar agreements with Russia and Azerbaijan on the division of the seabed. While the former Soviet republics, eager to begin exploiting their portions of the Caspian seabed, have gone ahead with bilateral and trilateral agreements on the division of the sea, Iran continues to insist that the Caspian be divided into five equal parts. BB
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