Iran Nuclear Drive Must Be Peaceful, Medvedev Tells Ahmadinejad

Iran Nuclear Drive Must Be Peaceful, Medvedev Tells Ahmadinejad
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Πεμ, 18 Νοεμβρίου 2010 - 19:10
Russia President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday stressed the importance of Iran having a peaceful nuclear program, the Kremlin said, in his first meeting with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad since a breakdown in ties.
Russia President Dmitry Medvedev Thursday stressed the importance of Iran having a peaceful nuclear program, the Kremlin said, 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 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 program," Russian news agencies quoted Prikhodko as saying.

Medvedev met Ahmadinejad on the sidelines of a regional summit in the Azerbaijani capital
Baku during one of the lowest points in relations between the two countries.

Once a reliable backer of
Tehran , Moscow has scrapped a controversial missile deal with Iran and backed United Nations sanctions against the country over its controversial nuclear drive.
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