Russia against unilateral sanctions on Iran

Moscow, Aug 11, IRNA – Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Borodavkin in a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Moscow Mahmoud Reza Sajjadi on Tuesday, again declared Russia's opposition to the unilateral sanctions of the US and Europe against Iran.

In the meeting, Borodavkin said that Russia has already declared its opposition to such a policy of the US and European governments.

Concerning the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant commissioning, Borodavkin said that the head of Russia’s Nuclear Energy Agency Sergei Krinko is ready to travel to Iran at the end of current month to attend the opening ceremony of Bushehr Power Plant.

Sajjadi expressed Iranian government and nation condolences with Russian government and people over the casualties and damage caused by Russian forests fires.

By welcoming Russia's readiness for commissioning Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, Sajjadi said that the plant will be inaugurated after the fasting month of Ramadan.

The two sides also underlined necessity of expansion of cooperation in the fields of transportation.

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Andrei Nesterenko recently, by issuing a statement, underlined Moscow's stance on unilateral sanctions against Iran and said that such measures are not acceptable to Russia.

He added that such approaches will damage not only common efforts to find a diplomatic solution for solving Iran’s nuclear program, but is a kind inattention to text of the UN Security Council resolution./end