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Nursultan Nazarbayevâ€™s â€œThe Kazakhstan Wayâ€ published in Azeri

17 November 2011 11:53 (UTC +04:00)

The book was translated into Azeri on the initiative of the Mahmoud Kashgari International Fund and Eurasian International Research Institute by Elkhan Zal Garakhanli and Nizamettin Alioghlu. The book is about the difficult and brilliant days of the Kazakhstanâ€™s new history. It is a Kazakh Presidentâ€™s address to the youth of the country. Speakers at the presentation ceremony emphasized that the book will be very interesting for the Azerbaijani readers. The nine-chapter book covers the historic events beginning from the strategy of independence till the contemporary history.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said in his book â€œThe Kazakhstan Wayâ€ that despite unanimity between the five Caspian littoral states, Iran still insists in division of the Caspian Sea between the five littoral states (20% for every) impeding the Convention on the Caspian legal status, APA reports. Nazarbayev wrote about the negotiations on the determination of the Caspian Seaâ€™s legal status. He reminded that Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan signed the agreement on the division of seabed on November 29, 2001 and protocols amended on February 27, 2003. The trilateral agreement between Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia signed on May 14, 2003 ended the division of seabed in north of the Caspian Sea, Nazarbayev said and reminded that he persuaded Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov to sign a joint statement in Almaty on February 27, 1997. The sides agreed to be committed to the delimitation of administrative territorial borders guided by the principle of median line and so Ashgabat demonstrated solidarity with Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan on the most disputed issue.

Touching on the next stage of the negotiations, Nursultan Nazarbayev writes that the summit of the Caspian statesâ€™ leaders was held in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan in April, 2002. Saparmurad Niyazovâ€™s idea on establishment of the Presidents Council of the Caspian States was an unexpected event at the summit.
Nazarbayev thinks this idea was put forward by Iran. According to the idea, the Council was to meet once a year and deal with the solution of the current issues in the Caspian states. Nazarbayev underlines that Azerbaijanâ€™s President Heydar Aliyev objected to it saying they attempt to direct the negotiations to the â€œidle talkâ€ and prevent its solution. Heydar Aliyev said how it would be regarded, if they sat in the same council with Iran, on which the world community imposed embargo.

Nazarbayev says the proposal was also rejected by Kazakhstan. He writes that establishment of such an institution does not solve the current multilateral discussions, but changes it. He mentions the next meeting of the Caspian statesâ€™ leaders in Tehran writing that because of the contradictions between Iran and Azerbaijan the final document was not signed. The heads of states, with the exception of Iran, accepted the division of the Caspian Sea into the national sectors, the model of distribution based on the median line principle.

Nazarbayev expresses his hope that the process of negotiations will be successful. He writes that one must not haste in the issue on the solution of the Caspianâ€™s status. He is sure that the process of negotiations will take into account the interests of all the five states of the region.