The number of countries who want to intervene in the affairs of the Caspian region is becoming more and more. The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this at the opening of the fourth meeting of the Interdepartmental Commission on the Caspian cooperation.
“Strengthening cooperation in the Zone of the Caspian Sea is our priority. This is clearly recorded in the concept of foreign policy of the Russian Federation approved by President Vladimir Putin in March 2023. We consistently proceed from the fact that five Caspian states have exceptional competence in resolving issues related to the Caspian. The implementation of the relevant agreements that were reached in the framework of work on the Convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea, ”he said.
Lavrov recalled that on February 17-18, the III Caspian Economic Forum was held in Tehran, during which the participants in the event spoke up for strengthening joint research cooperation, including the study of the reasons for the fraud of the Caspian.
“noted a high level of interaction between the Caspian countries in the oil and gas and electric power spheres, including” green “energy. They supported further consolidation of cooperation in the field of transportation, transport and logistics infrastructure. We agreed to hold the meetings of ministers on transport and economics,” he said.
“We proceed from the fact that the designated priority areas of the” Five “should remain in the focus of the attention of our commission. It is designed to promote the implementation of decisions made at the third Caspian Economic Forum,” summarized the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.