Russian President to ratify Caspian legal status convention soon

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a federal law ratifying the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, signed in Aktau on August 12, 2018.

The relevant document is published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The document sets out the regime of shipping and the collective use of the Caspian Sea, the mechanisms for establishing the boundaries of territorial waters and fishing zones, delimiting the bottom and bowels of the Caspian Sea into sectors, the conditions for laying submarine cables and pipelines and other issues of cooperation of coastal states.