THE PROBLEM OF THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL REGULATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSBOUNDARY MARITIME RESOURCES IN FRAME OF AZERBAIJAN AND IRAN RELATIONS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the development of maritime transboundary deposits of South-Caspian bassin within the condition of the absence of joint regulating legal act. The stages of the development of the government relations of the Republic Azerbaijan and the Islamic Republic Iran in context of question of doing the exploration and exploitation of maritime hydrocarbon deposits are situated on the territories on with undetermined jurisdiction were researched. The undertaken actions by Iran about the development of transboundary deposit Sardar-e Jangal and the compromise decision of the azerbaijanian party were analyzed. The signed a serie of normative papers by disputed parties was directed to the collaboration in the domain of the transboundary energyconsuming activity on the Caspian sea was studied. The authors had reached a view that the positive development of energy-resource relations of Azerbaijan and Iran in result will become a precedent which subsequently will allow to settle the azerbaijani-turkmenian relations on the unregulated transboundary hydrocarbon questions.