Caspian cooperation is important element for Russian-Azerbaijani cooperation: Russian ambassador

"The Caspian Sea is a very rich and informative material of interstate relations in the region. This includes, above all, transport, energy, biological resources, ecology, and shipbuilding sectors. Therefore, palette of relationships is very rich," Dorokhin said to Trend News.

The Russian Ambassadors to Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are meeting in Astrakhan, on Sept. 23-24, to jointly discuss the implementation of orders by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev. The meeting is held on the topic "Russia's interests in the Caspian Sea and ways to implement them in cooperation with other littoral states."

Dorokhin said Russia has recently taken successive steps, including at the highest level, in order to improve cooperation with the Caspian countries.

"In particular, here, in Astrakhan, a meeting has been recently held with the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev's participation that gave a strong political impetus to work in all areas of interaction with the Caspian states," said Dorokhin.

First of all, Russia is, he said, of course, working on the implementation of Russia's interests.

"But I think that Russia's presence in the Caspian Sea is advantageous for other countries, because the possibility of cooperation is the ability to create new jobs and the possibility of economic benefit," stressed the ambassador.

Dorokhin said the deeper Russia will deal with the Caspian issues, more actively it will work, the easier it will be to find issues that relate to all five littoral states, and, above all, the question on the status of the Caspian Sea, which is still not resolved.

/Trend News/