Turkmenistan ratifies deal with Kazakhstan on Caspian Sea

  26 May 2015    Read: 941
Turkmenistan ratifies deal with Kazakhstan on Caspian Sea
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The deal itself was inked November 7, 2014, to “ensure favorable conditions for realization of sovereign rights on the development and use of resources of the bottom and subsoil of the Caspian Sea.”

The document expresses conviction that the agreement will facilitate to the further strengthening of the good-neighbourliness and the development of mutually beneficial and equal cooperation between the parties.

The document also said the bottom and subsoil of the Caspian Sea are delimited between the parties along the line, which is based on the median line taking into account the principles and norms of international law, as well as the parties’ agreement.

The parties, in line with international and national environmental norms, requirements and standards, exercise sovereign rights within their sections of the bottom for the purpose of exploration, development and use of the resources of the bottom and subsoil of the Caspian Sea.

They also exercise sovereign rights for the laying of cables and pipelines under the Caspian Sea, the creation of artificial islands, berms, dams, piers, platforms and other engineering structures, as well as for carrying out other legitimate economic activities on the bottom.

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