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Moscow. — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday that Iran was an integral part of the upcoming international conference on the Syria crisis.“We believe that, in any case, the Iranian side must and will be an integral part of the efforts to settle the Syrian problem,” Lavrov told reporters following talks with his visiting Iranian counterpart Mohammad-Javad Zarif.
“It is important to keep constructive co-operation between all participants of the process to preserve and strengthen a spirit of joint work formed in Geneva,” he said.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem was also in Moscow and was to meet Lavrov and Zarif in trilateral talks later in the day. However, Lavrov denied there are any tripartite project on Syria, saying “We have nothing to hide, and we don’t have any hidden agenda.”
Speaking of the negotiations on the Iranian nuclear programme, Lavrov reiterated his earlier calls on all parties involved to refrain from any declarations and actions that might jeopardise the process.
Zarif confirmed Teheran was going to closely co-operate with Moscow over the Iranian nuclear problem. “It is very important that the Iranian nuclear issue could be solved with Russia’s facilitation,” he told the news briefing, adding he believed progress would be achieved.
Later Thursday, the Iranian foreign minister was to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin. — Xinhua.
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