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Iran, Russia review mutual, regional, international cooperation

IRNA

Tehran, Oct 11, IRNA -- Visiting Russian First Deputy Foreign Minister
Vyacheslav Trubnikov conferred here Saturday with Secretary of Supreme
National Security Council (SNSC) Hassan Rowhani on expansion of mutual
cooperation. 
At the meeting, Rowhani said that the Islamic Republic of Iran is 
determined to broaden ties with Moscow adding that Bushehr Atomic 
Power Plant is manifestation of scientific, technical, economic and 
strategic cooperation between Iran and Russia. 
Atomic cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia
is based on international regulations and conventions, Rowhani said. 
The Islamic Republic of Iran is to fully observe and implement 
NPT, safeguard agreement, transparency as well as comprehensive 
cooperation with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he said. 
It is the duty of industrial countries to render peaceful 
technological assistance to other countries and their refusal to 
cooperate with the Islamic Republic of Iran is a blatant violation of 
NPT by industrial countries, he said. 
Recent resolution issued by IAEA Board of Governors goes against 
the NPT and even the letter of association of the agency, he said 
adding that Iran`s policy is based on removal of misunderstandings 
with friendly countries and pursuing the policy of mutual 
confidence-building. 
The Islamic Republic of Iran is principally against proliferation 
and application of nuclear weapons, Rowhani said. 
Condemning the political motives of some countries such as the 
United States of America, he said Iran will not hesitate to safeguard 
the rights and interests of its people. 
He called mutual cooperation between Iran and Russia on Caspian 
Sea legal regime, security and environment protection as significant 
adding that foreign military forces have no right to enter the Caspian
Sea and the security of the sea should be maintained by the Caspian 
Sea littoral states, he said. 
Restoration of stability, security and developments in the 
war-shattered Afghanistan is vital for the Islamic Republic of Iran 
and Russia, he said and called for mutual strategic cooperation on 
Afghanistan and Iraq. 
Expressing concern over insecurity, lack of sanitation and 
shattered economic situation in Iraq, he called smuggling of weapons 
as a new dangerous phenomenon and said if the Americans even doubled 
their forces in Iraq, they would not be able to restore security in 
the country. 
Unilateral policy has proved a failure in Iraq and the US troops 
has no alternative but to withdraw from the country and let the Iraqis
administer their own affairs, he said. 
The Russian envoy, for his part, highlighted the common positions 
of the two sides on international issues and said the Islamic Republic
of Iran and Russia believe in unipolar system in running the world 
under supervision of the United Nations. 
Russia believes that to resolve issue of Iraq, the country`s 
integrity and sovereignty should be restored and people play the main 
roles in administrating the affairs under the supervision of the 
United Nations, he said. 
The US has failed to resolve the issues in Afghanistan and Iraq, 
he said. 
Mutual cooperation between Iran and Russia in resolving regional 
crisis, campaign against drug trafficking, terrorism would lead to 
restoration of peace, stability and security both in the region and 
in the world, he said and called for collective cooperation between 
Afghan neighbors to help create a security belt around the country. 
Atomic cooperation between the Islamic Republic of Iran and Russia
is of peaceful nature and under the framework of international 
treaties, he said adding that Moscow will continue its cooperation 
with Tehran and will not be effected by third countries. 
MM/AH/210 
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