Rouhani Arrives in Kazakh to Attend Caspian Sea Summit
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Sunday to participate in the Caspian Sea littoral states summit.
The Iranian President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Aktau, Kazakhstan, on Sunday to participate in the Caspian Sea littoral states summit.
Rouhani’s most important program in the two-day visit is to participate in the Caspian Sea summit in which a number of important and strategic documents for cooperation will be signed by the five countries bordering the sea.
“The (Caspian Sea) Convention would stipulate that all legal issues pertaining to the Caspian Sea would come into effect only with the consensus of the five Caspian Sea littoral states,” Mr Rouhani said on Sunday morning ahead of his trip to Kazakhstan.
“This convention completely bans the presence of foreign warships in this sea and this is a key issue for the national security of its littoral states,” he added.
The convention would be signed in Kazakhstan during the Fifth Caspian Summit in Aktau where representatives of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan would be present.
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed water body on earth by area, variously classed as the world’s largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
