It lies along the Caspian Sea.

We practically can t buy caviar from the Caspian Sea any more.

All the rivers drain into the Caspian Sea in the east of the country.

Its longest border is with the Caspian Sea (1,786 km).

The hydrography of Azerbaijan basically belongs to the Caspian Sea basin.

By this conquest Ottomans were able to reach the Caspian Sea.

Article 13 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea, 2003, Environmental emergencies

The Russian Federation does not recognize any unilateral territorial or jurisdictional claim of other coastal States over a part of the Caspian Sea until these negotiations have been completed and the new legal status of the Caspian Sea is agreed.

Through his career in Yemen, he may have influenced the introduction of Zaidi doctrine and literature from the Caspian region.

Sheki, Azerbaijan posts photographs showing the Caspian Sea, generally considered the largest lake in the world, encrusted with ice.

It was mainly signed by countries from the region between the Baltic, Black Sea and Caspian Sea ( The three Seas ).

The film was released on May 16, 2008 in the United States and on June 26, 2008 in the United Kingdom.

Azerbaijan's four main islands in the Caspian Sea have a combined area of over thirty square kilometers.

The Caucasus Mountains are a mountain system in Eurasia between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea in the Caucasus region.

Most of the subsidence in the area around the volcano is more gradual, at around per day.

The highest peak of Azerbaijan is mount Bazardüzü (4,466 m), while the lowest point lies in the Caspian Sea ( 28 m).

Oil explorations have shown that the deposits on the Caspian shore are only a small part of a much larger deposit.

Baku (, ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region.

Much of this Caspian oil is in Kazakhstan, giving that country a critical role in the regional energy market.

The largest of these consists of much of the interior of Asia, which drains into the Caspian Sea, the Aral Sea, and numerous smaller lakes.

In the early 19th century, the Russian Navy consisted of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets, Caspian Flotilla, White Sea Flotilla and Okhotsk Flotilla.

For Iran, the pipeline allows the country to deal with gas shortages in its northern regions, and to improve its reputation as a trade partner in the Caspian region.

In 1993, Turkmenistan adopted an Act on State Frontiers, establishing that State's internal waters and territorial sea in the Caspian Sea.

The Caspian region accounts for 2 to 3 of the world s known oil resources about equal to that of North Sea oil.

On 25 May 2005, a US 3.6 billion pipeline linking the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean was inaugurated.

The BTC is designed to transport up to 50 million tons of crude oil annually and carries oil from the Caspian Sea oilfields to global markets.

On a regional level, the investment focus is to be on the Black Sea, the North Sea region, the Caspian region, the Middle East and Sub Saharan Africa.

Sixth, we will consider a number of acts by the Russian Federation containing a protest, against the Republic of Turkmenistan and the Republic of Azerbaijan, respectively, in relation to the status of the waters of the Caspian Sea.

Negotiations among coastal States with a view to developing a new treaty on the legal status of the Caspian Sea began in 1994 and are still in progress.

The Russian Federation is of the opinion that the legal regime of the Caspian Sea is still determined by the above mentioned treaties until a new legal regime is agreed by the coastal States.

In December 1914 the Ottoman Empire, with German support, invaded Persia (modern Iran) in an effort to cut off British and Russian access to petroleum reservoirs around Baku near the Caspian Sea.

After the fall of the Safavid Dynasty, Russia and the Ottoman Empire agreed to divide the northwest and the Caspian region of Persia, but with the advent of Nadir Shah, the Russians and the Turks withdrew from the region.

Our close partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme, the Caspian Ecological Programme, the Aral Sea Rescue Fund and a number of other international environmental initiatives shows how regional and global environmental protection issues can be tackled.

In October 2007, Vladimir Putin became the first Russian leader since Leonid Brezhnev to visit Iran, bringing along five leaders of the Caspian Sea states.

The Caspian Sea ranks much further down the list on mean depth, as it has a large continental shelf (significantly larger than the oceanic basin that contains its greatest depths).

Fifth, Georgia itself provides an important link to Caspian energy for all those Europeans who do not want to be totally dependent on pipelines controlled by Russia.

Most oil production increases are expected to come from just a few countries mainly in the Middle East, but also Canada with its vast oil sands reserves, the Caspian region, and Brazil.

The examples selected also contained statements of general application, renouncing sovereignty over a Territory, or protesting about the legal regimes applicable to the territorial seas of Caspian Sea States.

While far smaller than the deposits in Saudi Arabia or Iran, Caspian oil could prove important if oil production falls or is reduced for political reasons elsewhere.

Beyond these policy actions, Europe also needs to speak with one voice when dealing with monopoly suppliers such as Russia or, in the future, with an Iran that might one day become linked to the planned Caspian pipelines.

The eastern Mediterranean, the Aegean, the western Balkans, the Caspian region and the southern Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Middle East are all areas where the West will achieve nothing or very little without Turkey s support.

Some steps include implementing a strategic plan of activities to protect the environment of the Caspian Sea and developing national plans on the prevention of oil pollution, the increase of fish stocks, regulation of dangerous and toxic wastes and the prevention of transborder river pollution.

It should be recalled that, until the dissolution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the legal status of the Caspian Sea was governed by the Treaty entered into with Persia in 1921 and the 1940 Commerce and Navigation Treaty between the USSR and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The first case refers to a protest formulated by means of a diplomatic note, dated 6 January 1994, addressed to the Government of the Republic of Turkmenistan on the occasion of the adoption of the State boundary law which establishes internal and territorial waters of that State in the Caspian Sea .

The pipeline is expected to carry crude oil from fields in the Caspian Sea off Baku to Tbilisi in Georgia, and to the Mediterranean terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey. The pipeline has a capacity of 10 million barrels.