The head of the Russian Federation centuries Putin at the operative meeting with permanent members of Russia's security Council agreed on a situation in Ukraine, rapidly deteriorating after the refusal of Kiev from the renewal of the truce, said on Tuesday the press-Secretary of the head of the country, Dmitry Peskov.
" in the course of the meeting they discussed various aspects of the preparation of the 4th summit of the Caspian countries, planned for autumn of the current year. In addition, had a thorough discussion of the situation in Ukraine, which is rapidly deteriorating once the head Poroshenko gave the order for the withdrawal from the ceasefire, " said Sands.
according to him, the meeting was attended by the speaker of Council of Federation Valentina Matvienko, head of the state Duma Sergei Naryshkin, Secretary of the security Council Nikolai Patrushev, the head of the presidential administration Sergei Ivanov, Minister of foreign Affairs S. Lavrov Century, interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev, head of the defense Ministry Sergei Shoigu, Director of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov, the head of the foreign intelligence service Mikhail Fradkov, Deputy Secretary of the security Council Rashid Nurgaliev, the security Council Boris Gryzlov.
The summit of the Caspian countries will be held in autumn in Astrakhan and will be devoted to the question of the legal status of the Caspian sea. As said before in an interview Last news special representative of the President of the Russian Federation on problems of delimitation and demarcation of Russia's borders with CIS countries, Ambassador for special assignments of the Russian foreign Ministry Igor Bratchikov, during the forthcoming meeting is expected to consolidate the progress achieved in the first issue of the choice of the legal status of the sea at the level of foreign ministries.
The choice of the legal status of the Caspian sea became topical after the collapse of the USSR, when the appearance of new subjects of international law - the countries of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan - have put the Question of delimitation of the Caspian among the five countries. The difficulties of selecting the status of the Caspian sea are, for example, by declaring him a lake or the sea, a distinction which is governed by different provisions of international law. The negotiation process of establishing a new legal status continues up to the present moment.
in April of this year in the Russian capital hosted soveshanie foreign Ministers of the Caspian States - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan, is devoted to the question of the choice of the legal status of the Caspian sea. The Minister of foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation S. Lavrov Century said on its results to the journalists that during the talks the sides " summed up substantial progress ". According to him, a number of documents, which is expected to introduce leaders of the Caspian countries at the conference, scheduled for autumn of this year, is placed at a serious stage of development. For example, turned out to move forward on the issue of delimitation of water areas of the Caspian sea.
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