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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