POLITICS
Baku to host 33rd meeting of working group to define Caspian Sea status
Baku, September 12 (AZERTAC). “The 33rd meeting of the working group to define the legal status of the Caspian Sea will be organized in Baku,’ Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Elman Abdullayev has told journalists.
He noted the meeting would see the littoral states consider a draft Convention on the status of the Caspian Sea.
Abdullayev said the meeting would involve Azeri deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Khalaf Khalafov, special representative of Russian President for the demarcation and delimitation of borders with neighboring states-CIS members, Ambassador at Large of the Russian Foreign Ministry Igor Bratchikov, deputy Kazakh Foreign Affairs Minister Kayrat Saribay, Iran’s deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Mohammad Mehdi Akhondzade and Turkmenistan’s Special Representative on the Caspian Region’s issues Murat Atajanov.
The spokesman also touched upon media reports about a meeting between “foreign affairs minister” of the separatist regime in Azerbaijan`s occupied Nagorno-Karabakh region Karen Mirzoyan and Danish journalists and MPs. “The Ministry is investigating the issue.”
Abdullayev also commented on French prosecutor bodies` ending investigation into the case of Azerbaijani diaspora members Mirvari Fataliyeva and student Vusal Huseynov. “The French prosecution bodies said they completed the investigation because of lack of evidence. But, this does not mean the end of the trial. It is planned to appeal to the court again.”
Touching upon the Iranian FM’s statement about great Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi, Abdullayev said: “One of great figures of Azerbaijan’s classical poetry, the pride of the nation Nizami was born and deceased in Ganja. This can’t be a subject of any discussions.”