Since 2007, the day of entry into force of the Framework Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Caspian Sea (Tehran) on August 12, Turkmenistan, the Russian Federation, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Iran celebrate as Caspian Sea Day. Now this eco-date is addressed to millions of residents of the coastal areas of the five states, which are connected by environmental and economic activities, energy extraction, fishing and cargo and passenger transportation.

The Tehran Convention is the first official legal document that contributed to the transfer of activities in the Caspian region from the “voluntary implementation” mode to the plane of legal guarantees for the implementation of environmental measures, raising the Caspian regional interaction to a higher level. Its goal is the conservation, restoration and sustainable and rational use of the biological resources of the sea. Our country, along with other Caspian states, signed this document in November 2003, and was the first of the Caspian Five to ratify it in 2004. The content of the Convention is being improved. The five-party working groups of experts continue to develop new protocols and to promote the ratification and implementation of previously adopted ones. Gozel Orazdurdiyeva, National Liaison Officer with the Secretariat of the Tehran Convention, talks about the latest news in the legal sphere of the pentalateral document: