11.   Since then, Iran, Russia and the newly independent countries of Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan and Kazakstan have not agreed on how to divide the sea.

12.   That meeting failed to produce an agreement on dividing the sea between the five countries.

13.   Tehran proposes dividing the sea into five equal sectors.

14.   Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan meanwhile want to divide the sea into areas of commercial exploitation corresponding to their shorelines.