FMs OF FOUR LITTORAL STATES OF THE CASPIAN SEA MEETS IRAN'S PRESIDENT MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov looks on as he attends in a meeting with Foreign ministers of four littoral states of the Caspian Sea -- Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan -- with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran, Iran on June 20, 2007. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
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