Caspian Sea
Why in the news
- Recently, the heads of all five countries bordering the Caspian Sea signed a landmark convention on the legal status of the world’s largest inland body of water after two decades of negotiations, settling a long-standing dispute over whether the Caspian is a sea or a lake.
- The convention defined and regulated the rights and obligations of the littoral countries with respect to the use of the Caspian Sea, including its waters, bottom, subsoil, natural resources and airspace over the region. However, it neither defined the Caspian Sea as a sea nor as a lake.
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