Publish Date: 22 October 2016 - 14:11

TEHRAN, Oct. 22 (MNA) – The 47th meeting of the Working Group on Determining the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea at the level of deputy foreign ministers will be held on Sunday in Tehran.

Deputy foreign ministers of five littoral states, Iran, Azerbaijan, Russia, the Republic of Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, will attend the event.

In addition to discussing the most important issues contained in the draft Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, the two-day meeting will cover the provisions of preliminary consultations on the 5th meeting of presidents in Kazakhstan.

The last meeting of Caspian Sea Working Group was held on July 11-12 in Astana, and one day before the meeting of foreign ministers of the five littoral states on July 13 in Kazakhstan.

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