Russia, Iran Cite `Ecological Concerns` In Opposing Trans-Caspian Pipeline
(WorldNews Iran)

The Caspian Economic Forum just took place in Turkmenistan´s Caspian resort area of Avaza on August 12, exactly one year to the day after the Convention On The Legal Status Of The Caspian Sea was signed at a summit of Caspian littoral state leaders in Aqtau, Kazakhstan. The document signed in Aqtau was supposed to finally clarify for all five Caspian states -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Iran, Russia, and Turkmenistan -- how the...