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Volkov: Discords on nuclear issue to be solved through talks

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Tehran, Feb 27, IRNA
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Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Yuri Volkov in a meeting with the head of Iran-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group, Kazem Jalali here Monday said that negotiation is the only way to solve various disagreements in the international community.

According to a report released by Majlis Media Department, he added that resorting to threat and force in settling differences of ideas eliminates the positive prospect of solving such problems.

Stressing the inalienable right of Iran to access nuclear energy for peaceful use, he noted that his country will support such a right, which is in accordance with international laws.

"Russia's approach to regional and nuclear issues as well as expansion of trade ties with Iran is clear to everyone. The Russian state Duma will do its best to broaden Iran-Russia cooperation and restore Iran's right for access to peaceful nuclear technology," he added.

Turning to Iran as a significant country sharing many regional commonalties with Russia, he said that the positive trend of political and parliamentary collaboration between the two states, the role of their parliaments and friendship groups is quite important and effective in strengthening such cooperation.

He urged that both sides should make optimum use of their parliamentary potentials to further broaden bilateral political, parliamentary and trade ties.

Volkov pointed to exchange of visits between the high-ranking officials of the two countries, in particular that of Majlis Speaker Gholam-Reza Haddad-Adel to Russia, and said that continuous visits on diplomatic missions will lead to further expansion of ties.

Meanwhile, he called for increasing economic and trade exchanges in line with bilateral political relations.

For his part, Jalali pointed to the favorable ties between the two states, while stressing its strategic significance to both sides, and called for bolstering relations in various parliamentary, political and trade fields.

Underlining Iran's inalienable right to access nuclear energy for peaceful use, he said that this should not be replaced by any other plan.

Jalali said that the world is witness to the fact that the global hegemony under the leadership of the US intends to deprive Iran of such an inalienable right and urged that Russia should attempt to restore it, which is the broad-based demand of the Iranian people.

He added that Russia should not let the mutual strategic ties be overshadowed by irrational desires of the third party.

As the rapporteur of Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, Jalali, referred to Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant as the symbol of nuclear cooperation between Iran and Russia and called for expediting its implementation.

The meeting was attended by a number of Iranian members of Iran-Russia Parliamentary Friendship Group.

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