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| Russia tells Iran to keep nuclear drive peaceful | |
| 2010-11-19 | |
BAKU — Russian President Dmitry Medvedev stressed the importance of Iran keeping to a peaceful nuclear programme Thursday in his first meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad since a breakdown in ties.
“The conversation was of a completely open nature. Neither ourselves nor our colleague avoided the unpleasant questions,” Medvedev’s top foreign policy aide Sergei Prikhodko said after the meeting in Baku. “The president (Medvedev) spoke of the importance of the continuation of a peaceful Iranian nuclear programme,” Russian news agencies quoted Prikhodko as saying. “An example (of such cooperation) came at Bushehr” where Russia recently launched Iran’s first nuclear power plant, Prikhodko added. The comments kept to the careful diplomatic line Russia maintained in the days leading up to the high-stakes meeting: strongly backing more talks with Iran but resisting showing outright support for its president. In a sign of the meeting’s sensitivity and contrary to usual practice, Russian state television did not broadcast the opening remarks and showed only the two men shaking hands with Ahmadinejad smiling broadly. Once a reliable backer of Tehran, Moscow has scrapped a controversial missile deal with Iran and backed United Nations sanctions against the country, which Russia now admits is nearing the ability to develop a nuclear bomb. | |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Clearly VLAD + DIMITRY + ANNA CHAPMAN didn't get the word... To wit, * DAILY TIMES.PK > WORLD POWERS SHOULD NOT THREATEN IRAN. UN Resolution vee Human Rights in Iran. ARTIC > LARIJANI + NEW UN RESOLUTION is "HARMFUL TO INTERNATIONAL PEACE + CO-EXISTENCE". ---------- OTOH RENSE > [Guardian.UK] TACTICAL NUCLEAR WEAPONS IN EUROPE: THE TERRORIST THREAT. ARTIC > UNSAFE = KNOWINGLY-NOT-UP-TO-STANDARD, US-NATO NucWeaps Security. IMO espec given JEDI MASTER YODA'S warning of "BEGUN, THE FRANCE/EURO JIHAD, HAS"??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-11-19 23:59 |