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Khalaf Lhalafov: â€œNegotiations on division of the Caspian Sea ground will continue in Marchâ€

29 January 2010 18:30 (UTC +04:00)

Tbilisi: Nizami Mammadzade â€“ APA. Negotiations on division of the Caspian Sea ground will continue in March. Deputy foreign minister of Azerbaijan Khalaf Khalafov said to Georgian bureau of APA.
According to deputy minister, presently the negotiations continue in this direction: â€œWeâ€™ll keep on negotiations based on five-sided format on drawing up the conventions. Our next meeting will be held in the first quarter of the current year. We still continue the negotiations on some features. So, in 2007, during the Teheran summit, the heads of the states got initiated a safety issue and made decision to appeal to Azerbaijan for the purpose of establishment the security-related mechanisms with attraction of boundary, customs, law-enforcement, and other state bodies. Itâ€™s possible to conclude the corresponding treaty for establishment such mechanisms. Azerbaijan has already drawn up the draft of the project. Last year we held the first stage of the negotiations and the next stage of the negotiations is intended to be held in Baku. We have already notified our Caspian colleagues about the date of the meeting. If the meeting takes place in that date, weâ€™ll keep on our negotiations thenâ€.