Ashgabat Hosted a Meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caspian States

Ashgabat, June 28, 2022 – On the eve of the Sixth Caspian Summit, Deputy Prime Minister - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kazakhstan Mukhtar Tileuberdi took part in a meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Caspian States. The event was also attended by the Foreign Minister of Iran Hossein Amir Abdollahian, Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov, Foreign Minister of Turkmenistan Rashid Meredov and Deputy Foreign Minister of Azerbaijan – Khalaf Khalafov.

The Ministers of the Caspian Five discussed a number of topical issues of cooperation between coastal states in the Caspian Sea, and also agreed on the draft Communiqué of the upcoming VI Caspian Summit, which will be held with the participation of the Presidents of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Russia and Turkmenistan in Ashgabat on June 29 this year.

The previous Fifth Caspian Summit was held in 2018 in Aktau and The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was signed.