15.1 Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea

The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was concluded at the Fifth Caspian Summit at Aktau (Kazakhstan) on 12 August 2018, on behalf of the Republic of Azerbaijan, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Turkmenistan. The Convention resulted from the Parties’ negotiations held since 1996 with a view to “facilitat[ing] the development …