The problem of the international legal delimitaion of the adjacent territories in the Caspian Sea
The article is devoted to the problem of delimitation of maritime boundary and dividing of the transboundary maritime natural resources between the coastal states of Caspian Sea, in context of the absence of single regulating legal act. The practical examples of the demarcation of seabed and subsoil through the middle line between Russian Federation and Republic of Kazakhstan are analyzed, the procedure of joint development of the cross-border deposits Kurmangazy, Tsentralnoe and Khvalynsloe, which was established by the Additional Protocol to the Agreement on July 6, 1998 was investigated. The cumulative assessment of the regulation approach applied in the agreements between Republic of Azerbaijan and Republic of Kazakhstan, Russian Federation and Republic Azerbaijan, and finally, in the trilateral Agreement «on the junction point of the lines of the delimitation of adjacent territories of the Caspian seabed» is given. Along with this, the example of the unsettled transboundary energy disputes in the territory of the South Caspian basin between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan is given. The authors suggest taking into account the established practice in the Caspian region and in pursuant with it to implement the necessary demarcation of seabed and resources between Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan that in the final will allow to the Caspian states to delimit the maritime Caspian territory without any going beyond the frame of a uniform approach.