MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF IRAN SUBMITTED SOME SUGGESTIONS
REGARDING THE STATUS THE KASPISEE








MOSCOW, 13 March.  / RIA "Nowosti" correspondent Jelena Gluschakowa /.
the director/conductor of the State Department of Iran Kamal Kharrazi
submitted some suggestions, which concern the status of the Kaspisee
during the negotiations with its Russian colleague Igor Iwanow.  That
indicated the minister of foreign affairs of Russia on Tuesday the
journalist after the negotiations.  Igor Iwanow called these
suggestions very interesting.

We will continue the consultations, in order to obtain
declarations/agreements, which will open the way to a summit of the
Kaspistaaten, said Igor Iwanow.

This summit is planned for at the beginning of of April.

After words of the Russian Minister all Kaspistaaten needs the legal
basis for co-operation in the Kaspi sea.

Dealing with the Russia attendance of the president of Iran Sayed
Mohammad Khatami taking place at present, Iwanow said that the Russian
page evaluated this attendance in the whole as such, which corresponds
to the interests of Moscow and Teherans as well as international and
regional stability.  After its words this attendance is very important
also from the point of view of co-operation between the two states in
the international arena.

Kamal Kharrazi underlined for his part a further mark the fact that
co-operation between Iran and Russia is directed toward economic
stability of the region and that to our countries must correspond to
imposed functions.  After its words " this co-operation is directed
not against any countries, but toward peace, friendship, development
of the trade relations in the region and the protection of a free
passage of energy resources ".