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[quote="Tom Mazanec"]and it can't be a sea because it's connected to any of the world's oceans.

Not connected

And the Caspian is the worlds largest lake. Just because it's called a sea does not make it one, or the Aral and Dead seas are seas. If you make an exception, do you make one for Superior?[/quote]
The difference is that a lake has an exit. For Lake Superior there is an exit called the St. Lawrence River that flows into the Atlantic Ocean. A consequence of this difference is that a sea will have saltier water than a lake, because it only loses water through evaporation but dousn't lose salt at all. In a way, a typical lake and a sea have more in common with one another than they do with a "salt lake" or "internal sea" like the Caspian Sea, because both a typical lake and a sea in some way connect to the ocean.

All of this is irrelevant to diplomacy, which is driven entirely by politics and not by facts at all.

The value of selective agenda meetings is the avoidance of total reality. Of course, there's that old bug-a-boo of no mutual term definitions. Now all get weekends by the shore.
Oh, look at that can being kicked down the sand.

and it can't be a sea because it's connected to any of the world's oceans.

Not connected

And the Caspian is the worlds largest lake. Just because it's called a sea does not make it one, or the Aral and Dead seas are seas. If you make an exception, do you make one for Superior?

13-Aug-18 World View -- A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved



Major issues about commercial exploitation remain unresolved

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Contents:
A 'historic' Caspian Sea agreement leaves major issues unresolved
Major issues about commercial exploitation remain unresolved


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Caspian, Russia, Iran,
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Soviet Union,
Vladimir Putin, Trans-Caspian Pipeline, TCP,
Black Sea, Nato, Afghanistan