VOL. XLIV

No 39

24-September-2001

CASPIAN

Azerbaijans Aliyev Cancels VisitTo Iran

Azerbaijans President HaydarAliyev has canceled a planned trip to neighboring Iran on 17 September duringwhich he was to discuss with President Mohammad Khatami differences between thetwo countries on offshore rights in the Caspian Sea. In July Irans navy forcedtwo Azerbaijani hydrocarbon research vessels to withdraw from an area of thesouthern Caspian that Iran claims as its territory (MEES, 30 July).Azerbaijan...