VOL. XLIV

No 31

30-July-2001

CASPIAN

Iran Halts Azerbaijan/BPExploration In Disputed Caspian Area

The vexed question of the legal status of the CaspianSea was brought into sharp focus last week when Iran used the threat ofmilitary force to eject Azerbaijani ships from disputed Caspian waters. TheGovernment of Azerbaijan has lodged a formal protest with its southern neighborover the incident on 23 July in the southern Caspian, when an Iranian warshipforced two Azerbaijani hydrocarbon research...