The beginning of the meeting of foreign ministers of Caspian coastal countries in Moscow

According to the correspondent of Fars news agency’s foreign policy group, the annual meeting of the foreign ministers of Caspian Sea coastal countries, chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, started at noon today (Tuesday, December 14) in Moscow. This meeting will be held privately at first with the presence of five foreign ministers and then the foreign ministers will attend the public meeting.

In this one-day meeting, Hossein Amirabdollahian, Sergey Lavrov, Jihon Bayramov, Murad Norteleo and The foreign ministers of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, Rashid Mardov, are present. We focus on strengthening economic and trade cooperation between the coastal countries of the Caspian Sea. This is one of the topics that can be helpful and effective for strengthening the economic cooperation of the five coastal countries.

In addition to meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Amir Abdallahian will also have bilateral meetings during this trip. He will also participate in the meeting with other foreign ministers.

The foreign minister told reporters that the issue of Palestine and the crimes of the Israeli regime against Gaza is another fundamental issue that will be discussed with the company. We will discuss with the participants and especially the main host, Russia, about ways to immediately stop the genocide and war crimes against the people of the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian West Bank, the opening of the humanitarian corridor to send continuous humanitarian aid and prevent the forced migration of the people of Gaza.

Before this, the spokeswoman of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, announced in a news conference that the said meeting would be held on December 14th (December 5th) in Moscow and was chaired by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and said that Lavrov On the sidelines of this meeting, he will also hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts.

Iranian ambassador in Moscow Kazem Jalali also stated that in the Moscow meeting, the fields of development of cooperation in the fields of Various issues such as the security of the Caspian region, expansion of economic relations, maritime transport, trade, energy, environment and related legal issues will be discussed. The next meeting of the leaders of the Caspian littoral countries should be discussed.

Amir Abdullahian had traveled to Moscow in April this year to participate in the first quadrilateral meeting of the foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Syria and Turkey regarding Syria. .

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