The International Seminar on 'Caspian Sea and Future Cooperation' opened in Baku on Tuesday morning, IRNA reported.

The ecological conditions and natural reserves of the land-locked sea are to be studied by the participants in the seminar.

The four-day seminar will also discuss cooperation among regional countries.

Some 103 journalists as well as political and economic experts from different countries, including the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Caspian Sea littoral states, are taking part in the seminar.

The participants in the seminar will also have a round-table discussion with political officials and scholars of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Caspian Sea's scientific and environmental issues on the sidelines of the seminar.