CASPIAN LEGAL STATUS: MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS REMAIN

The convention on the legal status of the Caspian sea has been 75 to 80 percent coordinated, although “the most complex things are ahead,” Iranian deputy foreign minister Mehdi Safari said after the 17th sitting of a special working group for the convention.

If no legal status for the Caspian is eventually drawn up, armed conflicts may follow, the diplomat warned. “We are for a balance of arms in the region within the framework of reasonable sufficiency,” he added

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