VOL. XLI

No. 28

13-July-1998

FSU

Russia And Kazakstan Agree On Caspian Sectors, Iran And Turkmenistan VoiceOpposition

President Boris Yeltsin of Russia and President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakstan on 6July signed an agreement dividing the northern Caspian Sea into territorial sectors, thefirst time that Russia has acknowledged Kazakstan's claim to oil and gas resources locatedoffshore in the Caspian Sea. Previously Russia, as well as Iran, took the position thatthe Caspian was a lake and...