1.   Plenty of opinions collide at a conference on how to divide the sea, where the strategic interests of Moscow, Tehran and the West collide.

2.   But the five states that now share the Caspian have yet to agree on how to divide the sea.

3.   Dividing the sea along territorial lines would leave Iran with the smallest share.

4.   Dividing the sea along territorial lines, as most of the Caspian states propose, would leave Iran with the smallest share.

5.   Hasanov said after the meeting that the two countries had agreed on how the sea should be divided.

6.   Iran wants to divide the sea equally.

7.   Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan all have favored dividing the sea along national lines, which would give Iran the smallest share.

8.   Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan previously all have expressed support for dividing the sea according to national sectors along median lines that would leave Iran with the smallest share.

9.   Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan support dividing the sea by national sectors, which would give Iran the smallest portion.

10.   Russia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan have pressed for dividing the sea along median lines, which would give Iran the smallest sector.