Iran Opposes Foreign Intervention in Caspian Affairs

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Iran Opposes Foreign Intervention in Caspian Affairs

Iran on Wednesday expressed its rejection to any foreign intervention in the Caspian Sea, saying that the intervention will make conditions in the region more complicated.

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Iran on Wednesday expressed its rejection to any foreign intervention in the Caspian Sea, saying that the intervention will make conditions in the region more complicated.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi told the official IRNA news agency that foreign intervention in the Caspian Sea will not solve problems in the region, but make conditions morecomplicated and harm regional convergence.

Iran has always favored constructive cooperation with all its neighbors, including the Caspian littoral states, Asefi said, stressing that Tehran believes that issues related to the Caspian Sea should be settled through mutual understanding and consensus among the littoral states.

The Caspian Sea is estimated to contain the world's third largest reserves of oil and gas after the Persian Gulf and Siberia.

Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan are the five countries encircling the Caspian Sea.

Among the five nations, Iran and Turkmenistan have pushed for division of the sea into five equal sectors, while the rest three contend that the sea floor should be divided into national sectors.

Because of the protracted differences, a summit meeting on division of the resource-rich sea has been postponed for several times, while they have worried about U.S. and Western interference in the Caspian issues.

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