"Caspian five" did not solve anything

The first summit of the Caspian Five will not be the last, and this, according to many observers, is the only visible achievement of the meeting at the highest level of the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran. They failed, contrary to optimistic forecasts, to sign even the general political final declaration, on which experts of the five countries have been working on for about two years, Interfax reports.

At the same time, the presidents instructed the Foreign Minister, without delay, to continue this work and prepare a documentary basis for the next meeting at the top. According to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, the Foreign Minister and experts in various areas, taking into account the "thorough exchange of views on key matters of life, the Caspian will continue to work on individual issues, problems related to our interactions in the Caspian Sea." “After the level of preparation of these documents will require a new meeting, the leaders (five states) will meet,” Ivanov said.

The agreement of the leaders on the need for regular personal contacts in this format was identified as the main result of the summit by Russian President Vladimir Putin. According to him, the heads of the Caspian states first gathered together and "reached the discussion of the problems of the status of the Caspian Sea, to various nuances and details." “It is equally important that we agreed that such meetings will be constantly held, we will constantly maintain contacts,” the Russian president said.

The leaders of the Caspian countries ”” realized that all issues, including controversial, can be effectively resolved, both on a two- and multilateral basis, ”said Putin.

I agree with the Russian president of his Azerbaijani colleague Heydar Aliyev. In his opinion, the leaders of the Caspian states have a need to meet "thus more often."

Iranian President Mohammad Hatam, who confirmed at the summit of his invariability, unacceptable for the rest of the partners the position on the Caspian section, was limited to the result of an obvious fact - "for one day it is impossible to resolve all issues related to the status of the Caspian Sea."

“There are more problems than expected,” Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, summed up his impressions.

The owner and formal initiator of the Saparmurat Niyazov summit does not hide the disappointment: "The presidents, although there were more than four hours, but could not find common points of view. We agreed that we would meet on this issue." Turkmenbashi is unhappy, in particular, the work of experts who pissed at night on the final document: "This is an empty document that cannot be accepted."

Some Niyazov’s estimates - both today and that sounded the day before, according to analysts, indicate the premature of forecasts that at the summit of the four countries of the former USSR will make a more or less consolidated position at least about the methodology of the section of the Caspian Dine according to the modified median line. On the contrary, on the eve of the Turkmenbashi, he was actually solidarized with Iran’s reproaches to Baku in connection with the active economic activity of the latter in the controversial, according to Tehran and Ashgabat, the points of the Caspian. According to Niyazov’s clips, there is no specific methodology for calculating the mid -Caspian line.

Meanwhile, as the special representative of the President of Russia on the settlement of the status of the Caspian Sea Viktor Kalyuzhny, a tripartite meeting of Russia-Azerbaijan-Kazakhstan, was planned to sign an agreement on a differential line at the Caspian between them, said on Wednesday in Ashgabat.

There is a proposal to conduct the following summit in Tehran in April of next year, and then in Kazakhstan. However, the President of Turkmenistan believes that this should not be a summit, which as a body does not answer for anything, but the council of the heads of state, which should make fundamental decisions.

For his part, the deputy head of the Russian Presidential Administration Sergei Prikhodko said that Putin supported Iran’s proposal to hold the next Summit of the Caspian Five in Tehran. Specific terms, said Prikhodko, were not stipulated, as it depends on "filling the topics of the next meeting of the presidents."