The assessment is stipulated by the Protocol on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea signed in Moscow by representatives of five Caspian littoral states.
On July 19-20, Moscow hosted an extraordinary session of the conference of the parties to the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (Tehran Convention). Azerbaijan was represented at the session by a delegation led by Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Mukhtar Babayev.
The Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea entered into force on August 12, 2006.
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