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Payvand's Iran News ...
10/15/03

Iran denounces trilateral agreement on Caspian Sea
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Asefi said in Tehran on Tuesday that the recent trilateral agreement signed on October 8 between the Republic of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Russia on dividing the Caspian seabed is not in conformity with the principle of consensus and lacks legal standing, IRNA reported.

According to the Information and Press Bureau of the Foreign Ministry, Asefi said that any measure to change the legal regime of the Caspian Sea should be endorsed by all five littoral states.

The recent agreement totally contradicts the principle of consensus and makes the issue more complicated and delays the process of resolving the issues pertaining to the Caspian Sea and the Islamic Republic of Iran considers it to be of no legal bearing, he concluded

http://www.payvand.com/news/03/oct/1088.html

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15 Oct 2003 15:29:52 GMT Reuters
ElBaradei won't extend Iran's nuke deadline

The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Wednesday that Iran could not expect an extension of an October 31 deadline to provide proof that they do not have a secret atomic weapons programme.

"I cannot accept that by the end of the month we will be in a position...that we believe that we have not gotten all the information we require," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei told Reuters.

He added that Iran had increased its level of cooperation in recent weeks but said: "the speed is still not the way we would like to see it".

http://www.alertnet.org/printable.htm?URL=/thenews/newsdesk/L15632999.htm