"Iran is ready to host the second summit of Caspian states," head of the secretariat for the Caspian Sea of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Mochtaba Damirchilu said at a briefing in Moscow on Wednesday after a meeting of a special working group on defining the legal status of the sea, Interfax reports.

"The Iranian delegation held a number of consultations with Caspian states in order to define the date of the summit," he said.

"As soon as there is an agreement on a specific date will make it known," he said.