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The Legal Status Of The Caspian Sea, Namdar Hosseinzadeh Jan 2008

The Legal Status Of The Caspian Sea, Namdar Hosseinzadeh

HIM 1990-2015

Currently the Caspian is simple described as the world's biggest enclosed body of salt water. The five littoral states of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Iran, have not come to an agreement in regards to the legal status of the Caspian, which means it is not considered to be a lake or a sea. This incident can be explained by the legal consequences of claiming the Caspian as an International Lake or Sea. As one could assume, this two statuses greatly differ in regards to their legal structures. It is of the utmost importance to not that the various national …