Moscow, Tehran to Hold High-Level Meetings in September

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RIA Novosti, PUBLISHED 05.09.2014

Iran expects to hold two high-level meetings with Russia in September, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Friday.

“We have already held two high-level meetings, they were very important and had a strategic nature. Within a month we will hold another two high-level meetings,” Zarif said during talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday.

Zarif stressed that under Iranian President Hassan Rouhani “the level of political contacts between our countries has reached unprecedented highs.”

“The recent events that happened over the past several months demonstrate that we share a common stance while many others who had a different point of view, made a strategic mistake. That’s why Iran and Russia can play a key role in [the] international fight against extremism,” Zarif said.

During the talks, the sides discussed Iran’s nuclear program. Russia's Foreign Minister called on the West to refrain from the temptation to bargain in the final stage of resolving Iran’s nuclear issue by trying to get more from Iran than is needed for a balanced package. Lavrov added that Russia will work on preserving the cooperative spirit that prevailed at the November 2013 talks on Iran’s nuclear program in Geneva.

On November 24, 2013, an action plan was adopted in Geneva, according to which Iran, Russia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and China agreed to reach an agreement that would guarantee the peaceful nature of Tehran’s nuclear program, in exchange for the lifting of international sanctions against Iran.

The document must be signed a year from the Geneva Accord, which gives the parties until November 24, 2014, to reach a final agreement.

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