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Название: Геополитические проблемы Каспия на англ. языке Главные Пункты: * Министр иностранных дел Казахстана К.Токаев заявил, что, т.к. государства Прикаспия не могут прийти к пятистороннему консенсусу, Казахстан будет решать проблему статуса Каспия на основе двухсторонних договоров. Первым будет подписан договор с Россией. * и другие материалы по вопросам раздела Каспия на двухсторонней основе (13.05.2002) Полный Текст Геополитические проблемы Каспия на англ. языке Геополитические проблемы Каспия на англ. языке *** /13:01 24.04.2002/ Russia proposes holding next Caspian summit in Tehran Ashghabad, April 24. 2002. (CNA). The Russian President Vladimir Putin has proposed holding the next summit of the Caspian Five in the Iranian capital Tehran. The Turkmen President Saparmurat Nyyazow told today reporters that earlier the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev has asked for the next summit to be held in Kazakhstan. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /18:31 29.04.2002/ Iranian Foreign Ministry thinks that presence of foreigners in Caspian region will only complicate situation Tehran, April 29, 2002. (CNA). "Tehran believes the presence of foreign forces in the Caspian region on the invitation of some littoral states will only complicate the situation there," the Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. Talking to reporters, he stressed that the move will not help settle existing issues affecting the region. "The Islamic Republic of Iran believes the Caspian Sea should be a "sea of peace, friendship and cooperation," he said, and urged regional states to settle their differences through cooperation and coordination. Underlining the need for adoption of a legal regime to govern the Caspian Sea, Asefi said any kind of cooperation by or among littoral states would only be recognized or be effective after the states have decided on a legal regime. Tehran is keen to see establishment of this legal regime by encouraging useful and constructive discussions among leaders of the Caspian littoral states, he said, adding that it looks forward to a s! olution that takes into account the interests of all the regional countries as a whole, IRNA reports. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /12:42 06.05.2002/ Kazakhstan and Russia to sign protocol on Caspian Sea bed division Alma-Ata, May 6, 2002. (CNA). Kazakhstan will solve the issues with the Caspian littoral states (Russia, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Iran) on a bilateral basis, State Secretary, Foreign Affairs Minister Kasymzhomart Tokayev said at the first sitting of the Foreign Policy Council, BBC reports. First of all, the minister said, this will be reflected in relations between Kazakhstan and Russia, with which a final document on the modified median line of the Caspian Sea bed will be signed soon. The bilateral protocol is expected to be signed in Moscow in the first half of May. Tokayev noted that Kazakhstan was forced to resort to such tactics since the Caspian-littoral states still cannot reach a unanimous opinion on the Caspian status, and the fact that the recent summit of the heads of Caspian-littoral states - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan - in the Turkmen capital Asgabat on 23-24 April, ended practically without result is evidence of this. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /13:08 14.05.2002/ Azerbaijan ratifies treaty on Caspian sea bed delimitation Baku, May 14, 2002. (CNA). The Milli Majelis of Azerbaijan ratified the agreement "On delimitation of the Caspian sea bed between the Azerbaijani Republic and the Republic of Kazakhstan" signed in Moscow on 29 November 2001. CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /12:56 14.05.2002/ Russia and Kazakhstan sign document on Caspian seabed division Moscow, May 14, 2002. (CNA). The Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev have signed on May 13 a supplementary document to a bilateral agreement on the division of the Northern part of the Caspian Sea. This division is to clearly define sovereign mining rights. The bilateral agreement was signed on July 6, 1998. This suppplementary protocol, signed in the Kremlin on May 13, stipulates that Russia and Kazakhstan will work on the Kurmangazy, Tsentralnaya and Khvalynskoye fields on a 50/50 basis. The document sets "the geographic coordinates of the modified medium line, which divides the northern sector of the Caspian seabed between Russia and Kazakhstan." CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /12:51 15.05.2002/ Iranian daily considers unacceptable bilateral accords on Caspian Tehran, May 15, 2002. (CNA). The Iranian daily `Tehran Times' rejected as "unacceptable", the clinching of an agreement between Russia and Kazakhstan over the division of natural resources of the northern half of the Caspian Sea. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed, on Monday, a protocol in the Kremlin with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev in which they jointly decided to exploit the three major oil and gas deposits in the northern half of the Caspian Sea. The two countries had previously signed a similar agreement in July 1998. IRNA reports that the paper accused Russia and Kazakhstan for ignoring all international law regarding inland seas and the need for consensus over the Caspian Sea's new legal regime. The paper termed as "invalid", all documents and agreements signed between Moscow and Astana since the past three years over exploitation of the Caspian's natural resources since they are of "bilateral" nature and thus violate the international law on lakes approved in Vienna in 1969 and 1978. By signing such agreements, both Russia and Kazakhstan are trying to attract and pressure other littoral states to "accept a plan to divide the Caspian's natural resources based on their geographical borders and the length of their coasts," it noted. Moscow, the paper believed, has "distanced itself from the idea of joint ownership of the Caspian since 1998, backing the idea of dividing this body of water instead." Besides, the daily added, the Tehran-Moscow accord signed in 1921 and 1940, the only valid international documents with regard to the Caspian's legal regime clearly stipulates that "the Caspian is jointly owned by the two countries, and any new legal regime should be aimed at complementing the old one, not abrogating it altogether." CNA/www.caspian.ru *** /13:31 16.05.2002/ U.S. Caspian envoy arrived in Azerbaijan to discuss sea status Baku, May 16, 2002. (CNA). The U.S. envoy to the resource-rich Caspian Sea region, Steven Mann, arrived in the Azerbaijani capital Wednesday for talks on the decade-old dispute over how to divide up the sea. The American diplomat told journalists the main purpose of his visit is to discuss the Caspian Sea's status with Azerbaijani President Geidar Aliev and to discuss the position of the Azerbaijani government toward the Caspian conflict. Mann, a former U.S. Ambassador in Turkmenistan, commenting on the conflict between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan over access to disputed oil and gas deposits, said that "the only way out of the problem is negotiations." The diplomat arrived in Baku from Turkmenistan as part of a regional tour. The presidents of the five states bordering the Caspian Sea - Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan - failed to reach agreement on how to divide its resources at a meeting last month. The sea had been divided by treaties between the Soviet Union and Iran before the 1991 Soviet collapse. CNA/www.caspian.ru |