Iranian President to Attend Caspian Summit in Kazakhstan
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will travel to the Kazakh city of Aktau on August 11 to attend a summit of the five Caspian Sea littoral countries, an official said.
Accompanied by a number of cabinet members, the Iranian president is scheduled to leave Tehran for the coastal city on Saturday evening to take part in the Caspian summit, Rouhani's deputy chief of staff for communications and information Parviz Esmaili said Wednesday.
During his two-day visit to Kazakhstan, the Iranian chief executive will attend the Caspian summit, sign the meeting’s joint statement and also several other “important and strategic documents” on cooperation among the five Caspian states, he said.
According to Esmaili, Rouhani will also hold meetings with his Kazakh counterpart and a number of other dignitaries.
Rouhani will return home on August 12, he added.
The first meeting of the Caspian states’ leaders was held in Ashgabat in 2002, and the other summits were convened in Tehran, Baku and Astrakhan.
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed water body on earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
