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(Halifax, 14-16 May 2004)

This workshop was the fifth in the series of the Regional Maritime Security Project (RMSP) regional workshops conducted in Halifax.  Participants included Caspian experts from Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkmenistan and Russia (the invited participant from Kazakhstan was unable to attend for personal reasons). Proceedings were not published, but working papers are held on file.

(Tehran, Iran, 11 October 2004)

David Griffiths was invited to Tehran by the International Institute for Caspian Studies to conduct a Roundtable on Maritime Safety in the Caspian Sea. The visit also provided the opportunity to meet with representatives of the Caspian Environment Program, the International Ocean Institute and marine search and rescue experts to discuss future collaboration.

(Astrakhan, Russia, 22-25 August 2005)

As a result of discussions during the 2004 RMSP workshop in Halifax, this international workshop was coordinated by the Centre for Foreign Policy Studies and hosted by the Caspian Sea Operational Centre of the International Ocean Institute (IOI) at Astrakhan State Technical University (ASTU), in partnership with the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories in the United States, the International Centre for Emergency Management Studies (ICEM