By empty (10/29/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Teheran does not want countries that are not part of the region to be involved in Caspian affairs, the Iran Embassy said in a press release on Friday. This subject was discussed yesterday during a meeting between Iran\'s Presidential Special Envoy on the Caspian Mekhdi Safari and Russian Foreign Ministry Special Envoy and Ambassador at Large Igor Savolsky. \"Russia and Iran\'s rejection of the presence of countries not part of the region in the Caspian Sea was stressed,\" said the release.The Central Asia-Caucasus Analyst is a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a Joint Transatlantic Research and Policy Center affiliated with the American Foreign Policy Council, Washington DC., and the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Stockholm. For 15 years, the Analyst has brought cutting edge analysis of the region geared toward a practitioner audience.
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