Azerbaijan, Baku / Trend corr U. Ismayilova / The next summit of the Caspian Sea's littoral countries will not change Iran and Turkmenistan's positions and will not result in a consensus on the status of the Caspian Sea, Azerbaijani MP, Vahid Ahmadov, said on 24 August.
"I do not expect any results from the forthcoming status," he said.
The next summit of the Caspian Sea's littoral countries will be held in Teheran on 16 October.
According to Ahmadov, who is a member of the parliamentary commission on economic policy, is specially hoping for the change in Turkmenistan's position to rest upon the current president of the country, Kurbanguly Berdymukhammedov. The former Turkmenistan President, Saparmurad Niyazov, remained obstinate and did not agree with Azerbaijan," he said.
Ashgabat has not reported on its position with regards to the Caspian Sea's status since the current Turkmenistan President came to power in February 2007.
Before the USSR collapsed, the Caspian Sea's legal status was based on Soviet-Iranian agreements of 1921 and 1940. Currently, lack of the parameters of delimitation of the oil and gas prospective fields amongst the littoral countries has resulted in the necessity for a new legal status of the Caspian Sea based upon an agreement by all five littoral countries ( Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and Iran).