Rouhani: Iran-Russia Should Move To Phase Beyond Implementing Reached Agreements

Tehran, March 15, IRNA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in phone talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Thursday night proposed that it is time both countries move beyond mere implemention of reached agreements and focus on issues of greater importance. Both sides in the their phone talks which were initially aimed at pursuing the bilateral agreements reached during the Bishkek Conference, surveyed the current status of the regional and international developments and implementing the reached agreements as soon as possible. The two presidents were agreed on the need for further expansion of comprehensive relations. ˈWe should adopt measures to implement the reached agreements as soon as possible and move through that phase into a phase of more important moves in the two countiesˈ relations,ˈ said President Rouhani. Focusing on Iranˈs nuclear negotiations with the G5+1 countries (the Security Council Big 5 and Germany), Rouhani said that the talks are passing through an important phase to reach the final negotiationsˈ phase. The president praised Russiaˈs positive role played in the nuclear negotiations within the Iran-powersˈ talks as one of the members of the six world powers involved in the talks, especially in the field of bilateral economic cooperation, arguing, ˈWe will spend all-out efforts aimed at further development of economic cooperation between the two countries.ˈ President Vladimir Putin, too, for his part referred to the positive and constructive role played by Iran in the nuclear negotiations with the six world powers, expressing hope for the continuation of the same good trend. ˈWe do all our best so that the Iranian nuclear issue would lead to positive a final result,ˈ he said. Putin also invited his Iranian counterpart to take part in the Caspian Sea Littoral Countriesˈ Summit, which is scheduled to be held in Astrakhan in September, 2014. The latest developments in the region, in Ukraine, and in the international scene were also discussed between the two presidents in their phone talks, who were both agreed on the need for the continuation of their consultations on the regional and international affairs./end