TEHRAN -- President Ahmadinejad will travel to Azerbaijan on November 18 to attend the summit of Caspian Sea littoral states in Baku.

The presidents of the five Caspian states including Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan will attend the summit.
So far, the Caspian Sea states have reached a consensus over 70 percent of the sea’s legal regime.
The framework convention to protect the Caspian Sea environment was signed between the littoral states in Tehran in November 2003.
Tehran Convention aims at protecting the Caspian Sea environment from all sources of pollution and protecting, preserving and restoring the marine environment. The convention includes provisions on sustainable and rational use of the bio diversity of the Caspian Sea, as well as environmental monitoring, research and development