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201659
Tue, 08/16/2011 - 14:15
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Iranian, Russian FMs to Hold Comprehensive Talks in Moscow
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi plans to leave Tehran for Moscow to meet with his Russian counterpart and confer on broad range of issues on bilateral, regional and international developments.
During their meeting in Moscow, Salehi and Sergei Lavrov are due to hold comprehensive discussions.
The Iranian minister, who will travel to Russia on August 16, will also hold talks with Lavrov on the latest Middle East developments, the global financial crisis and Tehran's nuclear program.
The visit will take place after Iranian and Russian officials in a meeting in Tehran conferred on Moscow's 'step by step' proposal for the settlement of Iran-West nuclear standoff.
The issue was discussed in a meeting between Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Monday evening.
On July 13, the Russian foreign minister proposed a new 'step-by-step' approach toward Iran's nuclear program that would enable the Islamic Republic to take steps to address questions raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
According to the proposed plan, Iran can revive negotiations to alleviate individual concerns of the IAEA about its nuclear activities and be rewarded along the way by the partial removal of sanctions.
The approach would start out with the easiest questions and move on to more complicated ones that would require a longer time for a response.
Iran stressed that according to the modality plan agreed by the Islamic Republic and the IAEA in 2007, the agency should close Iran's nuclear dossier since Tehran has addressed and resolved all the issues of contention.
During their meeting in Moscow, Salehi and Sergei Lavrov are due to hold comprehensive discussions.
The Iranian minister, who will travel to Russia on August 16, will also hold talks with Lavrov on the latest Middle East developments, the global financial crisis and Tehran's nuclear program.
The visit will take place after Iranian and Russian officials in a meeting in Tehran conferred on Moscow's 'step by step' proposal for the settlement of Iran-West nuclear standoff.
The issue was discussed in a meeting between Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili and Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev on Monday evening.
On July 13, the Russian foreign minister proposed a new 'step-by-step' approach toward Iran's nuclear program that would enable the Islamic Republic to take steps to address questions raised by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
According to the proposed plan, Iran can revive negotiations to alleviate individual concerns of the IAEA about its nuclear activities and be rewarded along the way by the partial removal of sanctions.
The approach would start out with the easiest questions and move on to more complicated ones that would require a longer time for a response.
Iran stressed that according to the modality plan agreed by the Islamic Republic and the IAEA in 2007, the agency should close Iran's nuclear dossier since Tehran has addressed and resolved all the issues of contention.
